These verses contain a much fuller narrative of the events briefly described in (Exodus 20:18–21). Here it is important to call attenti…

And the Lord heard the voice of your words ... — The divine comment on the words of the people is recorded only in Deuter…

Go say to them. He more plainly adds God’s consent to the people’s prayer; this means that what they had asked was ratified by God’s decre…

Go say to them, get you into your tents again .
] Which they had left, being brought by Moses, at the direction of G…

Moses refers to the consternation caused by the terror with which the law was given. God's appearances have always been terrible to man, ever since…