Exo 20:18-19 | ESV | STEP | Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking , the people were afraid and trembled , and they stood far off

c Deut. 5:25, 27; 18:16; Gal. 3:19, 20; Heb. 12:19

Exodus 20:18-19

18 Now when all the people saw ^athe thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid ^{▼▼Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Masoretic Text the people saw} and trembled, and they stood far off 19 and said to Moses, ^c“You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”