Sinai Crowns and Freedom from the Angel of Death

Similarly you say (in Psalms 50:7): "Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God." When Israel stood at Mount Sinai and said (in Exodus 24:7): "All that the Lord has spoken we will do and we will obey," Rabbi Yochanan said: Six hundred thousand angels came down and placed crowns upon their heads. Rabbi Simai said: He clothed them in purple. Rav Huna of Tzippori said: He girded them with girdles. Rabbi Shimon said: They gave them weapons, and the Great Name was inscribed upon them; and as long as it was in their hands, the angel of death could not have power over them, as it is said (in Exodus 32:16): "engraved upon the tablets." What is the meaning of "engraved" (charut)? Rabbi Yehudah says: Freedom (cheirut) from the kingdoms. Rabbi Nechemiah says: Freedom from the angel of death. Rabbi Pinchas the Priest, son of Chama, said in the name of Rabbi Yochanan, in the name of Rabbi Elazar son of Rabbi Yose [the Galilean]: If the angel of death should come and say to me, "Why was I created?", I would say to him: If I created you, I created you over the nations of the world, and not over My children. Why? Because I made them gods, as it is said (in Psalms 82:6): "I said: You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High." Therefore, when He came to give them the commandments, He said to them: Hear what I am saying to you. Thus it is said: "Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God." See, here the Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moses: Even though I made you a god, I am your God, and you are a god only to Pharaoh, as it is said (in Exodus 7:1): "See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh."