Deuteronomy 5:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

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;

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  • 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."
  • Heb 12:18-21 : 18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, tempest, 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{TR adds "or shot with an arrow" [see Exodus 19:12-13]};" 21 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."

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  • Deut 4:10-13
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    10the 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.

    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.

    13He 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 5:4-5
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    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,

  • Deut 5:22
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    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.

  • Heb 12:18-19
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    18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, tempest,

    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,

  • Deut 5:24-28
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    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.

    25Now 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.

    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 you near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say: and speak you to us all that Yahweh our God shall speak to 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 4:36
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    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 18:16
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    16according 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.

  • Exod 20:18
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    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.

  • Exod 19:16-20
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    16It 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.

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

    18Mount Sinai, the whole of 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.

    19When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

    20Yahweh 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 4:33
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    33Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

  • Deut 9:15-16
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    15So 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.

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

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

  • Exod 19:9
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    9Yahweh 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 24:1
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    1He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

  • Exod 20:21-22
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    21The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

    22Yahweh 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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    10Yahweh 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 19:3
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    3Moses 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:

  • Deut 1:19-20
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    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.

    20I said to you, You are come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.

  • Deut 1:33
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    33who 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.

  • Deut 11:5
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    5and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;

  • Exod 24:17
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    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 19:7
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    7Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.

  • Exod 24:12
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    12Yahweh 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."

  • Exod 34:2
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    2Be 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.

  • Acts 7:31
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    31When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

  • Deut 1:43
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    43So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.

  • Exod 34:5
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    5Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh.

  • Lev 9:5
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    5They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting: and all the congregation drew near and stood before Yahweh.

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

  • 2 Pet 1:18
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    18This voice we heard come out of heaven when we were with him in the holy mountain.

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

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

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    14and 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 1:22
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    22You came near to me everyone of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.