23 When you heard the voice from the darkness, as the mountain was blazing with fire, all the leaders of your tribes and your elders came to me.
24 And you said, “The Lord our God has shown us his glory and majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks to him.
25 But now, we will die! This great fire will burn us up, and we will die if we hear the Lord our God speak anymore.
26 No human being has ever heard the living God speaking from a fire and still lived, but we have.
27 Moses, you go near and listen to everything the Lord our God says. Then you tell us what the Lord our God tells you, and we will listen and obey.”
28 The Lord heard what you said to me, and he said to me, “I have heard what the people said to you. Everything they said was good.
29 I wish their hearts would always respect me and that they would always obey my commands so that things would go well for them and their children forever!