Gen 18:22, Exo 19:16, 20:18-21, 24:2-3, Num 16:48, Deu 5:27, Psa 106:23 | ESV | STEP | So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom , but Abraham still stood before the Lord .

16 On the morning of the ^cthird day there were ^dthunders and lightnings and ^ea thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud ^ftrumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp ^gtrembled.

Exodus 20:18-21

18 Now when all the people saw ^hthe 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, ^j“You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.” 20 ^kMoses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to ^ltest you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.” 21 The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the ^mthick darkness where God was.

Exodus 24:2-3

2 Moses ⁿalone shall come near to the Lord, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.”

3 Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and ^oall the rules. ^{▼▼Or all the just decrees} And all the people answered with one voice and said, ^q“All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.”

Numbers 16:48

48 And he stood between the dead and the living, and ^rthe plague was stopped.

Deuteronomy 5:27

27 Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say, and ^sspeak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’

Psalms 106:23

23 Therefore ^the said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his ^uchosen one,
^vstood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.