Deuteronomy 18:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You were asking for a prophet the day you were gathered at Mount Sinai and said to the LORD, “Please don't let us hear your voice or see this terrible fire again—if we do, we will die!”

Cross References

Exodus 20:18

The people trembled with fear when they heard the thunder and the trumpet and saw the lightning and the smoke coming from the mountain. They stood a long way off

Exodus 20:19

and said to Moses, “If you speak to us, we will listen. But don't let God speak to us, or we will die!”

Jeremiah 1:9

The LORD reached out his hand, then he touched my mouth and said, “I am giving you the words to say,

Deuteronomy 1:6

People of Israel, when we were in our camp at Mount Sinai, the LORD our God told us: You have stayed here long enough.

Deuteronomy 10:4

where the LORD wrote the Ten Commandments on them, just as he had done the first time. The commandments were exactly what he had announced from the fire, when you were gathered at the mountain. After the LORD returned the stones to me,

Hebrews 12:19

or trumpet sound. The people of Israel heard a voice speak. But they begged it to stop,