Deuteronomy 4:12

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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.

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  • Deut 5:4 : 4 The LORD spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.
  • Deut 5:22 : 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.
  • Exod 20:22 : 22 The Altar The LORD said to Moses:“Thus you will tell the Israelites:‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.
  • Deut 4:15 : 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.
  • Deut 4:33 : 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?
  • Deut 4:36 : 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.
  • Num 12:8 : 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?”
  • 1 Kgs 19:12-13 : 12 After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper. 13 When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden a voice asked him,“Why are you here, Elijah?”
  • Isa 30:21 : 21 You will hear a word spoken behind you, saying,“This is the correct way, walk in it,” whether you are heading to the right or the left.
  • Isa 40:3 : 3 A voice cries out,“In the wilderness clear a way for the LORD; build a level road through the rift valley for our God.
  • Isa 40:6 : 6 A voice says,“Cry out!” Another asks,“What should I cry out?” The first voice responds:“All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.
  • Isa 40:18 : 18 To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?
  • Matt 3:3 : 3 For he is the one about whom the prophet Isaiah had spoken:“The voice of one shouting in the wilderness,‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.’”
  • Matt 3:17 : 17 And a voice from heaven said,“This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.”
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said,“This is my one dear Son, in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!”
  • John 12:28-30 : 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” 29 The crowd that stood there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him. 30 Jesus said,“This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.
  • Col 1:15 : 15 The Supremacy of Christ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,
  • 2 Pet 1:17-18 : 17 For he received honor and glory from God the Father, when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory:“This is my dear Son, in whom I am delighted.” 18 When this voice was conveyed from heaven, we ourselves heard it, for we were with him on the holy mountain.

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  • Deut 5:4-5
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    4The 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 4:33-36
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    33Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

    34Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

    35You have been taught that the LORD alone is God– there is no other besides him.

    36From 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.

  • Deut 4:10-11
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    10You 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.”

    11You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.

  • Deut 4:13-16
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    13And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.

    14Moreover, at that same time the LORD commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess.

    15The 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.

    16I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,

  • Deut 5:22-28
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    22The 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.

    23Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me.

    24You 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.

    25But 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!

    26Who 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?

    27You 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.”

    28When 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 18:16
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    16This 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.”

  • Heb 12:18-19
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    18For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

    19and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.

  • Exod 20:22
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    22The Altar The LORD said to Moses:“Thus you will tell the Israelites:‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.

  • Deut 9:10
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    10The 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.

  • Exod 20:18-19
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    18All 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.

    19They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”

  • Acts 7:31
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    31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

  • Exod 24:17
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    17Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people.

  • Deut 4:20
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    20You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

  • Exod 24:12
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    12The LORD said to Moses,“Come up to me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them.”

  • Deut 10:4
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    4The LORD then wrote on the tablets the same words, the ten commandments, which he had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he gave them to me.

  • Neh 9:13
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    13“You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

  • Deut 12:4
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    4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.

  • 1 Kgs 19:12
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    12After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper.

  • Exod 20:1
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    1The Decalogue God spoke all these words:

  • Num 14:14
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    14then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, LORD, are among this people, that you, LORD, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

  • Deut 4:23
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    23Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he has forbidden you.

  • Num 12:8
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    8With 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?”

  • Exod 34:27
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    27The LORD said to Moses,“Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

  • Deut 9:15-16
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    15So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

    16When 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!

  • Deut 1:33-34
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    33the one who would go before you on the way to find places for you to camp, appearing in a fire at night and in a cloud by day to show you the way you ought to go.

    34Judgment at Kadesh Barnea When the LORD heard you, he became angry and made this vow:

  • Exod 19:3
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    3Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain,“Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel:

  • Exod 34:3
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    3No 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.”

  • Lev 4:1
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    1Sin Offering Regulations Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Deut 9:8
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    8At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

  • Exod 19:18
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    18Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

  • Exod 19:9
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    9The LORD said to Moses,“I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.” And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.

  • Deut 1:6
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    6Events at Horeb The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb and said,“You have stayed in the area of this mountain long enough.