17. “You must not murder anyone.
18. “You must not be guilty of adultery.
19. “You must not steal.
20. “You must not tell lies about your neighbor.
21. “You must not want to take your neighbor’s wife. You must not want to take your neighbor’s house or land, his male or female slaves, his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
22. The Lord spoke these commands to all of you on the mountain in a loud voice out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness; he did not say anything else. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets, and he gave them to me.
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.