according to all the things which you desired from the Lord your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, We will not again hear the voice of the Lord your God, and we will not anymore see this great fire, lest we die.

This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and [with] our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us,

And [God] said, You shall not be able to see My face; for no man shall see My face and live.

And Jacob called the name of that place Peniel; for, [he said], I have seen God face to face, and my life was preserved.