Deuteronomy 5:4

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The LORD spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

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  • 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 34:10 : 10 No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the LORD face to face.
  • 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.
  • Exod 33:11 : 11 The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, the way a person speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent.
  • 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?”
  • Num 14:14 : 14 then 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 19:9 : 9 The 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.
  • Exod 19:18-19 : 18 Now 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. 19 When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking and God was answering him with a voice.
  • Exod 20:18-22 : 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.” 20 Moses 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.” 21 The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was. 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 5:24-26 : 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?

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  • Deut 5:5
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    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 4:11-13
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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 5:22-28
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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 4:36
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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 4:15
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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.

  • Deut 5:2-3
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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.

  • 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 4:33-34
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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?

  • 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.”

  • 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 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.

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

  • Exod 19:17
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    17Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

  • Num 5:5
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    5Restitution for Sin Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 33:11
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    11The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, the way a person speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent.

  • Deut 9:15
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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.

  • 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.

  • Lev 25:1
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    1Regulations for the Sabbatical Year The LORD spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai:

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

  • Num 16:44
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    44The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 34:2
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    2Be prepared in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself for me there on the top of the mountain.

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

  • Exod 19:20
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    20The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

  • 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.

  • Deut 2:2
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    2At this point the LORD said to me,

  • Exod 20:19
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    19They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • Lev 19:1
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    1Religious and Social Regulations The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 18:1
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    1Exhortation to Obedience and Life The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Deut 4:24
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    24For the LORD your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.

  • Num 3:5
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    5The Assignment of the Levites The LORD spoke to Moses:

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  • 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,

  • Heb 12:18
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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

  • 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 1:33
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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.