Exodus 20:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then they said to Moses, 'You speak with us and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.’

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  • Deut 18:16 : 16 According to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.
  • Exod 33:20 : 20 And he said, You cannot see my face: for no man shall see me, and live.
  • Gal 3:19 : 19 Why then serves the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise was made, and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
  • Heb 12:19 : 19 And the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore:
  • Gen 32:30 : 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
  • Deut 5:5 : 5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of the LORD: for you were afraid because of the fire, and did not go up into the mountain;) saying,
  • Deut 5:23-27 : 23 And it happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain burned with fire,) that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 And you said, Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does talk with man, and he lives. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die. 26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 27 Go near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak to us all that the LORD our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.
  • Acts 7:38 : 38 This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the living oracles to give to us:

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  • Exod 20:20-22
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    80%

    20 And Moses said to the people, 'Do not fear, for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.'

    21 So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

    22 And the LORD said to Moses, 'Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: You have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

  • Deut 5:24-27
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    80%

    24 And you said, Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does talk with man, and he lives.

    25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

    26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

    27 Go near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak to us all that the LORD our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.

  • Exod 20:18
    80%

    18 And all the people saw the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.

  • Deut 18:16
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    16 According to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.

  • Num 17:12-13
    2 verses
    78%

    12 And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.

    13 Whoever comes near the tabernacle of the LORD must die: will we all be consumed with dying?

  • Num 20:3-4
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    78%

    3 And the people argued with Moses and spoke, saying, "Would God that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

    4 And why have you brought the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness so that we and our livestock should die here?

  • Heb 12:19-21
    3 verses
    78%

    19 And the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore:

    20 For they could not bear what was commanded: "And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow."

    21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling."

  • Exod 19:21
    77%

    21 And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

  • Exod 19:23-25
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    23 And Moses said to the LORD, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you have warned us, saying, Set boundaries about the mount, and sanctify it.

    24 And the LORD said to him, Away, get down, and you shall come up, you and Aaron with you, but let not the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest he break out against them.

    25 So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

  • Lev 19:1
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    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 19:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD has spoken we will do. And Moses brought back the words of the people to the LORD.

    9 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever. And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.

  • Exod 24:2-3
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    75%

    2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.

    3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD has said, we will do.

  • Num 16:23
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    23 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 19:17
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    17 And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the lower part of the mount.

  • Exod 14:11-12
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    74%

    11 And they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? why have you dealt with us in this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

    12 Is not this the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than to die in the wilderness.

  • Exod 6:10
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    10 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 18:1
    73%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 19:19
    73%

    19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long and grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

  • Exod 19:12
    73%

    12 And you shall set boundaries for the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that you do not go up into the mount, or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mount shall surely be put to death:

  • Num 25:10
    73%

    10 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 14:2
    73%

    2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

  • Lev 20:1
    73%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 20:1
    73%

    1 And God spoke all these words, saying,

  • Num 16:44
    73%

    44 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 20:7
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    7 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Acts 7:40
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    40 Saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

  • Lev 24:13
    73%

    13 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 33:20
    73%

    20 And he said, You cannot see my face: for no man shall see me, and live.

  • Num 27:15
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    15 And Moses spoke to the LORD, saying,

  • Num 4:21
    72%

    21 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 16:20
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    20 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Num 12:2
    72%

    2 And they said, Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken also through us? And the LORD heard it.

  • Exod 32:23
    72%

    23 For they said to me, 'Make us gods who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

  • Num 12:8
    72%

    8 'With him I will speak face to face, clearly, and not in dark speeches; and he will see the likeness of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?'

  • Lev 17:1
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    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 14:13
    72%

    13 And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, (for you brought up this people in your might from among them;)