Compare with Deuteronomy 5:22-31. Aaron (Exodus 19:24) on this occasion accompanied Moses in drawing near to the thick darkness.

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AT THE PEOPLE’S REQUEST, MOSES BECOMES THEIR INTERMEDIARY.

The delivery of the Ten Commandments by a voice …

And the people stood afar off
Still kept their distance in their camp and tents; or the heads and elders of the peop…

This law, which is so extensive that we cannot measure it, so spiritual that we cannot evade it, and so reasonable that we cannot find fault with i…