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When he had said this, he brought the people, with their wives and
children, so near the mountain, that they might hear God himself speaking
to them about the precepts which they were to practice; that the energy
of what should be spoken might not be hurt by its utterance by that tongue
of a man, which could but imperfectly deliver it to their understanding.
And they all heard a voice that came to all of them from above, insomuch
that no one of these words escaped them, which Moses wrote on two tables;
which it is not lawful for us to set down directly, but their import we
will declare 1
1 Of this and another like superstitious notion of the Pharisees, which Josephus complied with, see the note on Antiq. B. II. ch. 12. sect. 4.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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