Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
They could not bear God's voice and begged Moses to stand between them, promising obedience. But see their instability: earlier they had been ready to stone him. Terror wakes the conscience but does not change the heart. Fair promises drawn from guilt prove nothing; conviction without grace does not purify or fix good principles in the soul.
AI summary
Commenting on Deuteronomy 5:23-33
Go say to them, get you into your tents again. Which they had left, being brought by Moses, at the direction of God, to the foot of Mount Sinai, to receive the law from his mouth; this being done, they are ordered to return to their tents again, to their families, wives, and children. Go say to them, get you into your tents again.