Deuteronomy 4:11

World English Bible (2000)

You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 5:23 : 23 It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
  • Heb 12:18-19 : 18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, 19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
  • Exod 19:16-18 : 16 It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain. 18 Mount Sinai, all it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
  • Exod 20:18-19 : 18 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance. 19 They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 4:12-13
    2 verses
    85%

    12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; only [you heard] a voice.

    13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

  • Deut 5:22-24
    3 verses
    85%

    22 These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.

    23 It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

    24 and you said, "Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does speak with man, and he lives.

  • Heb 12:18-21
    4 verses
    81%

    18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

    19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

    20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;"

    21 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."

  • Deut 5:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    4 Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire,

    5 (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;) saying,

  • Deut 4:36
    78%

    36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.

  • Exod 20:21-22
    2 verses
    78%

    21 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

    22 Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

  • Exod 20:18
    77%

    18 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.

  • Deut 4:15
    77%

    15 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.

  • Exod 19:16-18
    3 verses
    76%

    16 It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

    17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

    18 Mount Sinai, all it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

  • Exod 24:15-18
    4 verses
    76%

    15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

    16 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

    17 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

    18 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • Deut 4:10
    75%

    10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, "Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children."

  • Deut 18:16
    74%

    16 This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, "Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die."

  • Deut 4:33-34
    2 verses
    73%

    33 Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

    34 Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

  • Exod 34:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.

    3 No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."

  • Deut 1:33
    73%

    33 who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

  • 2 Sam 22:13
    72%

    13 At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled.

  • Exod 34:5
    72%

    5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh.

  • Deut 9:15
    72%

    15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

  • Josh 24:7
    72%

    7 When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days.

  • Exod 19:9
    72%

    9 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.

  • Exod 19:20
    71%

    20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

  • Deut 9:8
    71%

    8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.

  • Deut 5:26
    71%

    26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

  • Deut 1:19
    71%

    19 We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

  • Num 14:14
    71%

    14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

  • Neh 9:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.

    13 "You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

  • Isa 64:3
    70%

    3 When you did awesome things which we didn't look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

  • Deut 11:5
    70%

    5 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;

  • Acts 7:31
    70%

    31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

  • Exod 10:22
    70%

    22 Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

  • Exod 19:12
    70%

    12 You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.

  • Ps 18:12
    70%

    12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

  • 2 Sam 22:10
    70%

    10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.