Deuteronomy 5:24

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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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 19:19 : 19 When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking and God was answering him with a voice.
  • 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 5:4-5 : 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:
  • Judg 13:22 : 22 Manoah said to his wife,“We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!”
  • Exod 33:20 : 20 But he added,“You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”
  • Gen 32:30 : 30 So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining,“Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”

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  • Deut 5:25-28
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    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 5:2-5
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    2The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

    3He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

    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 4:32-36
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    32The Uniqueness of Israel’s God Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

    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 4:11-13
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    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.

    12Then 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.

    13And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.

  • Deut 5:22-23
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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.

  • 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.

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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.”

    20Moses said to the people,“Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin.”

  • Deut 18:16-17
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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.”

    17The LORD then said to me,“What they have said is good.

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    16The glory of the LORD resided on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.

    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.

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    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

    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.

  • Exod 33:20
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    20But he added,“You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”

  • Deut 4:15
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    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.

  • Exod 19:8-9
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    8and all the people answered together,“All that the LORD has commanded we will do!” So Moses brought the words of the people back to the LORD.

    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 4:4
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    4But you who remained faithful to the LORD your God are still alive to this very day, every one of 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?”

  • 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,

  • Deut 6:24
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    24The LORD commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

  • Deut 1:6
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  • 2 Pet 1:18
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    18When this voice was conveyed from heaven, we ourselves heard it, for we were with him on the holy mountain.

  • Num 14:22
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    22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

  • Deut 1:19
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    19Then 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.

  • Num 12:2
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    2They said,“Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard it.

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  • Exod 24:3
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  • Josh 2:11
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    11When we heard the news we lost our courage and no one could even breathe for fear of you. For the LORD your God is God in heaven above and on earth below!

  • Exod 34:5
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    5The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the LORD by name.

  • Num 14:28
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    28Say to them,‘As I live, says the LORD, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.

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