Exodus 20:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 9:13 : 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 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.
  • Heb 12:25-26 : 25 Take 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? 26 Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised,“I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”

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  • Exod 19:3-4
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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:

    4‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how I lifted you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.

  • 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:

  • 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.

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

  • Lev 18:1-2
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    1Exhortation to Obedience and Life The LORD spoke to Moses:

    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘I am the LORD your God!

  • Num 20:7
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    7Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Deut 5:24
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    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.

  • Deut 4:12
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    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.

  • Exod 16:11
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    11and the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 25:22
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    22I will meet with you there, and from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.

  • Exod 20:21
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    21The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

  • Lev 17:1
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    1The Slaughter of Animals The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 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.

  • Num 15:17
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    17Rules for First Fruits The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 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.”

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

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • Lev 22:1
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    1Regulations for the Eating of Priestly Stipends The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 20:1
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    1Prohibitions against Illegitimate Family Worship The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 14:13-14
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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.

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    12Sabbath Observance The LORD said to Moses,

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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.

  • 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.”

  • 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?”

  • Num 15:1
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    1Sacrificial Rulings The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 20:23
    73%

    23You must not make gods of silver alongside me, nor make gods of gold for yourselves.

  • Exod 6:2
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    2God spoke to Moses and said to him,“I am the LORD.

  • Exod 6:10
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    10Then the LORD said to Moses,

  • Lev 25:1
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    22The Priestly Benediction The LORD spoke to Moses:

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    21The Service of the Gershonites Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Deut 18:17
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    17The LORD then said to me,“What they have said is good.

  • Lev 23:1
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    1Regulations for Israel’s Appointed Times The LORD spoke to Moses:

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    10The Aftermath The LORD spoke to Moses:

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  • Lev 22:17
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    17Regulations for Offering Votive and Freewill Offerings The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Deut 29:2
    73%

    2The Exodus, Wandering, and Conquest Reviewed Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows:“You have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land.

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

  • Exod 19:6
    72%

    6and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”

  • Deut 5:28
    72%

    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.

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    25Instructions for the Levites The LORD spoke to Moses:

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    52Then the LORD spoke to Moses: