Deuteronomy 5:25
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!
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- Deut 18:16 : 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.”
- Deut 33:2 : 2 He said:A Historical Review The LORD came from Sinai and revealed himself to Israel from Seir. He appeared in splendor from Mount Paran, and came forth with ten thousand holy ones. With his right hand he gave a fiery law to them.
- 2 Cor 3:7-9 : 7 The Greater Glory of the Spirit’s Ministry But if the ministry that produced death– carved in letters on stone tablets– came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face(a glory which was made ineffective), 8 how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be? 9 For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!
- Gal 3:10 : 10 For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”
- Gal 3:21-22 : 21 Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. 22 But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise could be given– because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ– to those who believe.
- Heb 12:29 : 29 For our God is indeed a devouring fire.
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Deut 5:26-283 verses88%
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 5:22-243 verses83%
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.
- Exod 20:18-192 verses80%
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.”
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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.”
- Num 17:12-132 verses78%
12The Israelites said to Moses,“We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!
13(17:28) Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the LORD will die! Are we all to die?”
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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?
- Deut 5:2-54 verses74%
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:
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29For our God is indeed a devouring fire.
- Exod 14:11-122 verses73%
11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”
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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 4:11-122 verses72%
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.
- Num 20:3-42 verses72%
3The people contended with Moses, saying,“If only we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!
4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?
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19and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.
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22Manoah said to his wife,“We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!”
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14Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?
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3The Israelites said to them,“If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”
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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.
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25Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?
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6Seek the LORD so you can live! Otherwise he will break out like fire against Joseph’s family; the fire will consume and no one will be able to quench it and save Bethel.
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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.
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15If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
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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.
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21The 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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7For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!
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34All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said,“What if the earth swallows us too?”
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10The Lord Promises Exile(But Also Restoration)“When you tell these people about all this, they will undoubtedly ask you,‘Why has the LORD threatened us with such great disaster? What wrong have we done? What sin have we done to offend the LORD our God?’
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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.
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13“You must not disobey the LORD your God by saying,‘We will not stay in this land.’
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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.
- Num 14:2-32 verses69%
2And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!
3Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”
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4If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, we’ll live; if they kill us– well, we were going to die anyway.”
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24We swear we have done this because we were worried that in the future your descendants would say to our descendants,‘What relationship do you have with the LORD God of Israel?
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14The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.
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9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.
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2So fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them so that they died before the LORD.
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12You 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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25But Moses said,“Will you also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may present them to the LORD our God?