There shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet gives a long sound, they shall come up to the mount.
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly loud; so that all the people that were in the camp trembled.
And mount Sinai was altogether in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the living oracles to give to us:
Especially the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Gather the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD: for you were afraid because of the fire, and did not go up into the mount;) saying,