EXTRA · Side-ring · Parashas Shoftim · Passuk 18:16
According to all that you asked of the Eternal your God at Chorev on the day of the assembly, saying: Let me not continue to hear the voice of the Eternal my God, and this great fire let me not see any more, so that I not die.
Chazal / classical source (beyond TT-numbered main-ring units): Sifrei Devarim 175.
Lemma: לֹא אֹסֵף לִשְׁמֹעַ אֶת קוֹל ה׳.
English: ‘Let me not continue to hear the voice of the Eternal my God’ – because of the fear.
Derash on the motive of the request (Sifrei) — the people sought relief from the intensity of the direct encounter.
At Chorev the people asked not to hear the voice directly again, out of fear that they would die; the prophet is the answer to that request.