Deuteronomy 18:16
This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God:“Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”
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- Exod 20:19 : 19 They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”
- Deut 5:23-28 : 23 Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me. 24 You said,“The LORD our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living. 25 But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the LORD our God we will die! 26 Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived? 27 You go near so that you can hear everything the LORD our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.” 28 When the LORD heard you speaking to me, he said to me,“I have heard what these people have said to you– they have spoken well.
- Deut 9:10 : 10 The LORD gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.
- Heb 12:19 : 19 and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.
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- Exod 20:18-192 verses79%
18 All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking– and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.
19 They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”
- Deut 5:22-287 verses78%
22 The Narrative of the Sinai Revelation and Israel’s Response The LORD said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. Then he inscribed the words on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
23 Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me.
24 You said,“The LORD our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.
25 But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the LORD our God we will die!
26 Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?
27 You go near so that you can hear everything the LORD our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”
28 When the LORD heard you speaking to me, he said to me,“I have heard what these people have said to you– they have spoken well.
- Deut 4:10-123 verses77%
10 You stood before the LORD your God at Horeb and he said to me,“Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”
11 You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.
12 Then the LORD spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything– only a voice was heard.
- Deut 5:4-52 verses77%
4 The LORD spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.
5 (I was standing between the LORD and you at that time to reveal the LORD’s message to you, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:
- Deut 18:17-182 verses76%
17 The LORD then said to me,“What they have said is good.
18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.
- Heb 12:18-214 verses76%
18 For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind
19 and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.
20 For they could not bear what was commanded:“If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”
21 In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said,“I shudder with fear.”
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15 The Nature of Israel’s God Be very careful, then, because you saw no form at the time the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.
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33 Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?
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36 From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.
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26 But the LORD was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he said to me,“Enough of that! Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.
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19 For I was terrified at the LORD’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.
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15 But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”
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15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you– from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.
- Deut 9:15-162 verses72%
15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.
16 When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!
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34 Judgment at Kadesh Barnea When the LORD heard you, he became angry and made this vow:
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10 As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The LORD listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.
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6 Events at Horeb The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb and said,“You have stayed in the area of this mountain long enough.
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19 Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.
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10 The LORD gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.
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8 At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.
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3 No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.”
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42 But the LORD told me:“Tell them this:‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.’”
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8 With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
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17 the LORD said to me,
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18 And Moses said,“Show me your glory.”
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21 The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.
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21 This day I have told you what he said. But you do not want to obey the LORD your God by doing what he sent me to tell you.
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15 Then Moses spoke to the LORD:
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12 You must set boundaries for the people all around, saying,‘Take heed to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death!
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10 You must obey him and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”
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20 But he added,“You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”
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4 Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”
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29 So I responded to you,“Do not be terrified of them!
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16 Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.
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12 And he said to me,“Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.”