Deuteronomy 4:12

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Deut 5:4 : 4 Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire,
  • Deut 5:22 : 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.
  • Exod 20:22 : 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.
  • Deut 4:15 : 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.
  • Deut 4:33 : 33 Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
  • Deut 4:36 : 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.
  • Num 12:8 : 8 With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh's form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?"
  • 1 Kgs 19:12-13 : 12 After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. 13 It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
  • Isa 30:21 : 21 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way. Walk in it."
  • Isa 40:3 : 3 The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
  • Isa 40:6 : 6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
  • Isa 40:18 : 18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
  • Matt 3:3 : 3 For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight."
  • Matt 3:17 : 17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him."
  • John 12:28-30 : 28 Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." 29 The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him." 30 Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes.
  • Col 1:15 : 15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
  • 2 Pet 1:17-18 : 17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." 18 We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

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  • Deut 5:4-5
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    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 4:33-36
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    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?

    35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

    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.

  • Deut 4:10-11
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    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."

    11 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.

  • Deut 4:13-16
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    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.

    14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

    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.

    16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

  • Deut 5:22-28
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    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.

    25 Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, then we shall die.

    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?

    27 Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say: and tell us all that Yahweh our God shall tell you; and we will hear it, and do it."

    28 Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, "I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you: they have well said all that they have spoken.

  • Deut 18:16
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    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."

  • Heb 12:18-19
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    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 20:22
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    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.

  • Deut 9:10
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    10 Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

  • Exod 20:18-19
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    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."

  • Acts 7:31
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    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 24:17
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    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.

  • Deut 4:20
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    20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

  • Exod 24:12
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    12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."

  • Deut 10:4
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    4 He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to me.

  • Neh 9:13
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    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,

  • Deut 12:4
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    4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

  • 1 Kgs 19:12
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    12 After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

  • Exod 20:1
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    1 God spoke all these words, saying,

  • Num 14:14
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    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.

  • Deut 4:23
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    23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

  • Num 12:8
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    8 With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh's form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?"

  • Exod 34:27
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    27 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

  • Deut 9:15-16
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    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.

    16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made yourselves a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.

  • Deut 1:33-34
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    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.

    34 Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

  • Exod 19:3
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    3 Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

  • Exod 34:3
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    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."

  • Lev 4:1
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    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Deut 9:8
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    8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.

  • Exod 19:18
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    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 19:9
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    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.

  • Deut 1:6
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    6 "Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain: