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!
30. “Go and tell the people to return to their tents,
31. but you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, rules, and laws that you must teach the people to obey in the land I am giving them as their own.”