Deuteronomy 4:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire: the sound of his words came to your ears but you saw no form; there was nothing but a voice.

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  • Deut 5:4 : 4 The word of the Lord came to you face to face on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire,
  • Deut 5:22 : 22 These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me.
  • Exod 20:22 : 22 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that my voice has come to you from heaven
  • Deut 4:15 : 15 So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:
  • Deut 4:33 : 33 Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did?
  • Deut 4:36 : 36 Out of heaven itself his voice came to you, teaching you; and on earth he let you see his great fire; and his words came to your ears out of the heart of the fire.
  • Num 12:8 : 8 With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?
  • 1 Kgs 19:12-13 : 12 And after the earth-shock a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, the sound of a soft breath. 13 And Elijah, hearing it, went out, covering his face with his robe, and took his place in the opening of the hole. And there a voice came to him saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?
  • Isa 30:21 : 21 And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.
  • Isa 40:3 : 3 A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.
  • Isa 40:6 : 6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.
  • Isa 40:18 : 18 Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?
  • Matt 3:3 : 3 For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.
  • Matt 3:17 : 17 And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.
  • John 12:28-30 : 28 Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again. 29 Hearing the sound, a number of people who were there said that it was thunder: others said, An angel was talking to him. 30 Jesus said in answer, This voice came not for me but for you.
  • Col 1:15 : 15 Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;
  • 2 Pet 1:17-18 : 17 For God the Father gave him honour and glory, when such a voice came to him out of the great glory, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased. 18 And this voice came from heaven even to our ears, when we were with him on the holy mountain.

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  • Deut 5:4-5
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    4 The word of the Lord came to you face to face on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire,

    5 (I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain;) saying,

  • Deut 4:33-36
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    33 Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did?

    34 Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?

    35 All this he let you see, so that you might be certain that the Lord is God and there is no other.

    36 Out of heaven itself his voice came to you, teaching you; and on earth he let you see his great fire; and his words came to your ears out of the heart of the fire.

  • Deut 4:10-11
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    10 That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.

    11 And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.

  • Deut 4:13-16
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    13 And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writing on the two stones of the law.

    14 And the Lord gave me orders at that time to make clear to you these laws and decisions, so that you might do them in the land to which you are going, and which is to be your heritage.

    15 So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:

    16 So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

  • Deut 5:22-28
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    22 These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me.

    23 And after hearing the voice which came out of the dark while the mountain was burning with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your chiefs came to me,

    24 And said, The Lord has let us see his glory and his power, and his voice has come to us out of the fire: today we have seen that a man may go on living even after hearing the voice of God.

    25 Why then is death to be our fate? For if the voice of the Lord our God comes to us any more, death will overtake us, and we will be burned up in this great fire.

    26 For what man is there in all the earth, who, hearing the voice of the living God as we have, out of the heart of the fire, has been kept from death?

    27 Do you go near: and after hearing everything which the Lord our God has to say, give us an account of all he has said to you, and we will give ear, and do it.

    28 Then the Lord, hearing your words to me, said to me, The words which this people have said to you have come to my ears: what they have said is well said.

  • Deut 18:16
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    16 In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will overtake me.

  • Heb 12:18-19
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    18 You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind,

    19 And to the sound of a horn, and the voice of words, the hearers of which made request that not a word more might be said to them:

  • Exod 20:22
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    22 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that my voice has come to you from heaven

  • Deut 9:10
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    10 And the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on them done by the finger of God: on them were recorded all the words which the Lord said to you on the mountain out of the heart of the fire, on the day of the great meeting.

  • Exod 20:18-19
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    18 And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.

    19 And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us.

  • Acts 7:31
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    31 And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,

  • Exod 24:17
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    17 And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.

  • Deut 4:20
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    20 But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.

  • Exod 24:12
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    12 And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain, and take your place there: and I will give you the stones on which I have put in writing the law and the orders, so that you may give the people knowledge of them.

  • Deut 10:4
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    4 And he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the ten rules which the Lord gave you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the great meeting: and the Lord gave the stones to me.

  • Neh 9:13
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    13 And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:

  • Deut 12:4
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    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • 1 Kgs 19:12
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    12 And after the earth-shock a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, the sound of a soft breath.

  • Exod 20:1
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    1 And God said all these words:

  • Num 14:14
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    14 And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

  • Deut 4:23
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    23 Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Num 12:8
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    8 With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

  • Exod 34:27
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    27 And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you.

  • Deut 9:15-16
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    15 So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.

    16 And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which the Lord had given you orders to go.

  • Deut 1:33-34
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    33 Who goes before you on your way, looking for a place where you may put up your tents, in fire by night, lighting up the way you are to go, and in a cloud by day.

    34 And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,

  • Exod 19:3
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    3 And Moses went up to God, and the voice of the Lord came to him from the mountain, saying, Say to the family of Jacob, and give word to the children of Israel:

  • Exod 34:3
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    3 No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen anywhere on the mountain; let no flocks or herds come near to get their food at its foot.

  • Lev 4:1
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    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Deut 9:8
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    8 Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.

  • Exod 19:18
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    18 And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.

  • Exod 19:9
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    9 And the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that what I say to you may come to the ears of the people and they may have belief in you for ever. And Moses gave the Lord word of what the people had said.

  • Deut 1:6
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    6 The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, You have been long enough in this mountain: