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22 »Jehovah spoke to us when we gathered on the mountain. He spoke with a loud voice from the dark fiery cloud. Jehovah gave us these words, and only these. Then he wrote them on two flat tablets of stone and gave them to me.
23 »Fire blazed from the mountain, and you heard the voice coming from the darkness. Then your elders came to me.
24 »They said: ‘Today Jehovah our God has shown us how powerful and glorious he is. He spoke to us from the fire. We learned that people could live, even though God speaks to them.
25 »‘We do not want to take a chance on being killed by that terrible fire. If we hear Jehovah’s voice again we will die.
26 »‘Has any other human ever heard the only true God speaking from fire, as we have? And if they have, would they live to tell about it?
27 »‘They spoke to Moses: ‘Moses, go and listen to everything that Jehovah our God says. Then tell us whatever Jehovah our God tells you. We will listen and obey.’
28 »Jehovah heard the words you spoke to me. He told me: ‘I have heard what the people said to you. Everything they said was good.
29 If only they had such a heart in them that they would respect (reverence) me and obey all my commandments for as long as they live! Then things would go well for them and their children from generation to generation.’
30 Jehovah continued: »Tell the people to go back to their tents.«
31 But you stay here with me. I will give you all the commands, laws, and rules that you must teach them to obey in the land I will give them to possess.
32 Be careful to do what Jehovah your God has commanded you. Never turn to the right or to the left.
33 Follow all the directions Jehovah your God has given you. Then you will continue to live. Life will go well for you! You will live for a long time in the land that you are going to possess.