⁵ while ^(A)I was standing between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord; ^(B)for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up on the mountain. ^[a]He said,

²³ And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you approached me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders. ²⁴ You said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with mankind, yet he lives. ^25 (A)Now then, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, then we will die! ²⁶ For ^(B)who is there of ^[a]humanity who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? ^27 [b]Go near and listen to everything that the Lord our God says; then speak to us everything that the Lord our God speaks to you, and we will listen and do it.’

^19 (A)Why the Law then? It was added on account of the ^[a]violations, having been ^(B)ordered through angels ^(C)at the hand of a ^[b]mediator, until ^(D)the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

¹⁹ and to the ^(A)blast of a trumpet and the ^(B)sound of words, which sound was such that those who heard ^(C)begged that no further word be spoken to them.