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Go tell them, Return you to your tents.
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The Mediator's Role Confirmed
Commentators explain that God's command for the people to return to their tents was His official confirmation of their request for a mediator. After the terrifying display at Sinai, the people could return to a semblance of normal life while Moses alone would receive God's law on their behalf. As John Calvin notes, this ratified a divine decree, making obedience to Moses a direct requirement from God.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
These verses contain a much fuller narrative of the events briefly described in (Exodus 20:18–21). Here it is important to call attenti…
19th Century
Anglican
And the Lord heard the voice of your words ... — The divine comment on the words of the people is recorded only in Deuter…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
