Deuteronomy 5:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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,

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  • Exod 20:18-19 : 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.
  • Heb 12:18-21 : 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: 20 For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them; 21 And the vision was so overpowering that even Moses said, I am shaking and full of fear.

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  • Deut 4:10-13
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    85%

    10That 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.

    11And 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.

    12And 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.

    13And 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.

  • Deut 5:4-5
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    4The 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 5:22
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    22These 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.

  • Heb 12:18-19
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    18You 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,

    19And 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:

  • Deut 5:24-28
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    24And 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.

    25Why 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.

    26For 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?

    27Do 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.

    28Then 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 4:36
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    36Out 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 18:16
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    16In 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.

  • Exod 20:18
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    18And 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.

  • Exod 19:16-20
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    16And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear.

    17And Moses made the people come out of their tents and take their places before God; and they came to the foot of the mountain,

    18And 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.

    19And when the sound of the horn became louder and louder, Moses' words were answered by the voice of God.

    20Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

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

  • Deut 9:15-16
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    15So 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.

    16And 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 4:15
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    15So 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:

  • Exod 19:9
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    9And 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.

  • Exod 24:1
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    1And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance.

  • Exod 20:21-22
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    21And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.

    22And 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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    10And 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 19:3
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    3And 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:

  • Deut 1:19-20
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    19Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

    20And I said to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.

  • Deut 1:33
    71%

    33Who 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.

  • Deut 11:5
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    5And what he did for you in the waste land, till you came to this place;

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

  • Exod 19:7
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    7And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all these words which the Lord had given him orders to say.

  • Exod 24:12
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    12And 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.

  • Exod 34:2
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    2And be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai, and come before me there in the morning, on the top of the mountain.

  • Acts 7:31
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    31And 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,

  • Deut 1:43
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    43This I said to you, but you gave no attention and went against the orders of the Lord, and in your pride went up into the hill-country.

  • Exod 34:5
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    5And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord.

  • Lev 9:5
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    5And they took the things ordered by Moses, before the Tent of meeting, and all the people came near, waiting before the Lord.

  • Deut 5:2
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    2The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb.

  • 2 Pet 1:18
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    18And this voice came from heaven even to our ears, when we were with him on the holy mountain.

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

  • Neh 9:13
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    13And 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:

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    14And 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 1:22
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    22And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come.