Exodus 20:18-19
20:18 All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking – and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.
20:19 They said to Moses, “You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”
Hebrews 12:18-21
12:18 For you have not come to something that can be touched,
to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind
12:19 and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words
such that those who heard begged to hear no more.
12:20 For they could not bear what was commanded: “
If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”
12:21 In fact, the scene
was so terrifying that Moses said, “
I shudder with fear.”