Exodus 20:19 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁹ And they said to Moses, Speak thou to us: and let not God speak to us lest we die.

³⁰ And Jacob called the name of that place, Face of God: for I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved.

²⁰ but, said he, thou canst not see my face; for no man can see my face and live.

⁵ I indeed stood between the Lord and you, at that time, to declare to you the words of the Lord, because you were terrified at the fire, and did not go up to the mountain;

²³ Now when you heard the voice from the midst of the fire [the mountain indeed was burning with fire] you came to me, even all the leaders of your tribes, and your elders, ²⁴ and said, Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his glory, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire. We have this day seen that God can speak to man, and he may live. ²⁵ Now therefore let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we continue any longer to hear the voice of the Lord our God; and we shall die. ²⁶ For what mortal, who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, can live. ²⁷ Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our God may say, and thou shalt rehearse to us all that the Lord our God may speak to thee, and we will hear and do it.

¹⁶ According to all that thou didst request of the Lord thy God at Choreb, in the day of the solemn assembly, when you said, Let us no more hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and let us no more behold this great fire, lest we die,

³⁸ This is the person who was in the congregation in the wilderness, with the angel who spake to him at mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;

¹⁹ To what purpose then was the law? [b] On the account of transgressions it was superadded until the seed should come, to whom the promise was made; and it was introduced through angels by the hand of a mediator;

¹⁹ and to the sound of a trumpet, and a sound of words, the hearers of which entreated that the discourse might not be continued to them;