“And they saide vnto Moses, Speake thou with vs, and wee will heare: But let not God speake with vs, lest we die.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
20:19 Speak thou with us - Hereby they obliged themselves to acquiesce in the mediation of Moses, they themselves nominating him as a fit person to deal between them and God, and promising to hearken to him as to God's messenger.