Exodus 20:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen, but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ And they said to Moses, You speak to us and we will listen, but let not God speak to us, lest we die.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ They said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we’ll listen. But don’t let God speak to us, or we’ll die.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ saying to Moses: "Speak to us, and we will listen. Let not the Lord speak to us, lest perhaps we may die."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ Saying to Moses: Speak thou to us, and we will hear. Let not the Lord speak to us, lest we die.

Exodus 20:19 Cross References

Genesis 3:10

He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”

Genesis 32:30

So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved.”

Exodus 33:20

But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one shall see me and live.”

Acts 7:38

He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to us.

Galatians 3:19

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring would come to whom the promise had been made, and it was ordained through angels by a mediator.

Deuteronomy 18:16

This is what you requested of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’

Deuteronomy 5:5

(At that time I was standing between the Lord and you to declare to you the word of the Lord, for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:

Hebrews 12:19

and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them.