all the people] Chap. 24. 37. Deuteronomy 5:17. &Deuteronomy 26:7. Moses returned the words] Not that God knew not better then Moses, both what the people said, and thought: but because Moses was to be a mediatour betwixt God and them: therefore he must bring Gods word unto them, not to instruct him by them, but to receive his answer to them.