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The Eternal didn’t make that covenant just with our parents; He also made it with all of us who are alive here today, because we were included in the covenant when He made it with them. The Eternal tried to talk to you directly at that mountain from inside the fire that rose up into the sky. But you were afraid of the fire and wouldn’t go up the mountain, so I stood between you and the Eternal and told you what He was saying.

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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