This is what you requested of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, If I hear the voice of the LORD my God any more, or ever again see this great fire, I will die — the reference to Sinai's terror (the fear that caused Israel to request Moses as mediator) grounds the prophet-promise in Israel's actual experience; the mediating prophet emerges from their own experience of divine awe.

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