Deuteronomy 5:25

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Deut 18:16 : 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 33:2 : 2 He said, "Yahweh came from Sinai, And rose from Seir to them. He shone forth from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
  • 2 Cor 3:7-9 : 7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which was passing away: 8 won't service of the Spirit be with much more glory? 9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."
  • Gal 3:21-22 : 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law. 22 But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 for our God is a consuming fire.

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  • Deut 5:26-28
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    88%

    26For 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?

    27Go 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."

    28Yahweh 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 5:22-24
    3 verses
    83%

    22These 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.

    23It 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;

    24and 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.

  • Exod 20:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18All 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.

    19They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."

  • Deut 18:16
    78%

    16This 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."

  • Num 17:12-13
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    78%

    12The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!

    13Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of Yahweh, dies! Will we all perish?"

  • Deut 4:33
    78%

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

  • Deut 5:2-5
    4 verses
    74%

    2Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

    3Yahweh didn't make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

    4Yahweh 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,

  • Heb 12:29
    73%

    29for our God is a consuming fire.

  • Exod 14:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

    12Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."

  • Deut 4:36
    73%

    36Out 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 4:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11You 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.

    12Yahweh 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.

  • Num 20:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

    4Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

  • Heb 12:19
    72%

    19the 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,

  • Judg 13:22
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    22Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God."

  • Ezra 9:14
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    14shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn't you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

  • Exod 16:3
    71%

    3and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

  • Deut 6:24
    71%

    24Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.

  • Heb 12:25
    70%

    25See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

  • Amos 5:6
    70%

    6Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

  • Deut 4:15
    70%

    15Take 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.

  • Num 14:15
    70%

    15Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

  • Exod 24:17
    70%

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

  • Exod 19:21
    70%

    21Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.

  • Ps 95:7
    70%

    7for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

  • Num 16:34
    70%

    34All Israel that were around them fled at the cry of them; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!"

  • Jer 16:10
    70%

    10It shall happen, when you shall show this people all these words, and they shall tell you, Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?

  • Deut 1:19
    70%

    19We 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.

  • Jer 42:13
    70%

    13But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,

  • Deut 1:6
    70%

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

  • Num 14:2-3
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    69%

    2All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

    3Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"

  • 2 Kgs 7:4
    69%

    4If we say, 'We will enter into the city,' then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die."

  • Josh 22:24
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    24"If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, 'In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, "What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?

  • Dan 9:14
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    14Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

  • Lam 5:9
    69%

    9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • Lev 10:2
    69%

    2And fire came forth from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.

  • Exod 19:12
    69%

    12You 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.

  • Exod 10:25
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    25Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.