2-5 God, our God, made a covenant with us at Horeb. God didn’t just make this covenant with our parents; he made it also with us, with all of us who are alive right now. God spoke to you personally out of the fire on the mountain. At the time I stood between God and you, to tell you what God said. You were afraid, remember, of the fire and wouldn’t climb the mountain. He said:

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It was not with our ancestors[a] that the Lord made this covenant, but with us,(A) with all of us who are alive here today.(B) The Lord spoke(C) to you face to face(D) out of the fire(E) on the mountain. (At that time I stood between(F) the Lord and you to declare to you the word of the Lord, because you were afraid(G) of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 5:3 Or not only with our parents