5:2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
5:3 He 1 did not make this covenant with our ancestors 2 but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.
5:4 The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.
5:5 (I was standing between the Lord and you at that time to reveal to you the message 3 of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:
1 tnHeb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.