5:22 - These are the commandments the Lord proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

This verse brings the reiteration of the Ten Commandments to a close by summarizing their nature: they are divine ("these are the commandments Yahweh proclaimed"), clearly ("in a loud voice," "to your whole assembly") and gloriously ("there on the mountain . . . darkness," see also v24) revealed, permanent and irrevocable ("he wrote them down on two tablets") in their authority. "He added nothing more" may refer to the Ten Commandments' "completeness and finality," as suggested by Wright,1 or the expression may be understood in another sense, as we suggest below (see comments on vv23-27). With this summary—which serves, of course, also to underline the authority of the Ten Commandments—Moses moves in the following verses to explain how the rest of his declarations and teaching partake of the same authority as the Ten Commandments.