Then the Lord said to Moses: tell the Israelites this: you have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven. The reminder that God spoke from heaven — not from an earthly idol but from the transcendent source — grounds the prohibition on idols that follows. You have seen for yourselves carries the same evidentiary weight as the covenant proposal in Exodus 19:4: you yourselves have seen what I did. The covenant is grounded in witnessed reality, and the prohibitions that follow are grounded in the same witness: you know who spoke, you know what was seen, you know what is required. 2 Peter 1:16 says the apostles did not follow cleverly devised stories — the same appeal to eyewitness reality that grounded the Sinai covenant grounds the apostolic testimony.

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