Deuteronomy 33:2
And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
The verse belongs to Moses' last blessing of Israel, a blessing in which Simeon is not mentioned. It describes God's manifestation in giving the law at Sinai, coming with ten thousands of saints, who are holy ones or angels in His retinue, with a fiery law going from His right hand. His coming is presented as appearing from Sinai and rising from Seir and shining from Mount Paran, amid the mountain's fiery and awe-inspiring signs.
The proclamation took place as God stood on Mount Sinai on the morning of the third day after the people had prepared themselves, speaking with an audible voice out of the thick darkness that enshrouded Him. The scene reveals God at the same time in power and majesty as judge and lawgiver and in love as compassionate guardian of His people, the same God who had delivered Israel from Egypt. The display of majesty was needed because Israel, degraded by long bondage in Egypt, needed to be impressed with a sense of God's power and majesty.
God purposed to make the speaking of His law a scene of awful grandeur in keeping with its exalted character, to impress that everything connected with God's service must be regarded with the greatest reverence, to inspire profound veneration for its Author as Creator of heaven and earth, and to show to all men the sacredness, importance, and permanence of His law. The giving of the fiery law was motivated by His love for His people and tribes, holding all His saints in His hand and having them sit at His feet to receive His words. The choice of place expressed contempt for cities and palaces made by human hands, for He chose a mountain in a great desert untouched by human hands, ringed by vast rugged heights speaking of eternal endurance and majesty, to proclaim His law.
There Israel received the most wonderful revelation ever made to man, as God gathered His people and declared with His own voice His holy law to impress the sacredness of His requirements, with His glory so concealed that they could hear His voice without being consumed, so that finite, ignorant, weak man stood before the infinite, omnipotent, eternal God and Christ and was made to feel solemnity and awe. The display of power and glory overwhelmed Israel with terror, so that they shrank from the mountain and begged Moses to speak with them lest God speak with them and they die.