Exodus 20:19 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁹ Then the people said to Moses, “If you want to speak to us, then we will listen. But please don’t let God speak to us. If this happens, we will 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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:10

The man said, “I heard you walking in the garden, and I was afraid. I was naked, so I hid.”

Genesis 32:30

So Jacob named that place Peniel. [192] Jacob said, “At this place, I saw God face to face, but my life was spared.”

Exodus 33:20

But you can’t see my face. No person can see me and continue to live.

Acts 7:38

This is the same Moses who was with the gathering of God’s people in the desert. He was with the angel that spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and he was with our ancestors. Moses received commands from God that give life. Moses gave us those commands.

Galatians 3:19

So what was the law {\cf2\super [39]} for? The law was given to show the wrong things people do. The law would continue until the special Descendant of Abraham came. This is the Descendant mentioned in the promise. \{The promise came directly from God.\} But the law was given through angels. The angels used \{Moses for\} a mediator {\cf2\super [40]} to give the law to people.

Deuteronomy 18:16

God will send you this prophet because that is what you asked him to do. When you were gathered together at Mount Horeb (Sinai), {you were afraid of God’s voice and the great fire you saw on the mountain. So} you said, ‘Don’t let us hear the voice of the Lord our God again! Don’t let us see that great fire or we will die!’

Deuteronomy 5:5

But you were afraid of the fire. And you did not go up the mountain. So I stood between the Lord and you to tell you what the Lord said. The Lord said:

Hebrews 12:19

There is no sound of a trumpet or a voice speaking words \{like those people heard\}. When the people heard the voice, they begged to never hear another word.