Deuteronomy 4:33

English Standard Version

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

Parallel Translations

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

King James Version
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

Lexham English Bible
Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, just as you heard it, and lived?

New Century Version
No other people have ever heard God speak from a fire and have still lived. But you have.

New English Translation
Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

Amplified Bible
"Did [any] people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you heard, and [still] live?

New American Standard Bible
"Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Did euer people heare the voyce of God speaking out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast heard, and liued?

Legacy Standard Bible
Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and lived?

Complete Jewish Bible
Did any other people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and stay alive?

Darby Translation
Did [ever] people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

Easy-to-Read Version
You people heard God speaking to you from a fire, and you are still alive. Has that ever happened to anyone else? No!

George Lamsa Translation
Did any other people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

Good News Translation
Have any people ever lived after hearing a god speak to them from a fire, as you have?

Christian Standard Bible®
Has a people heard God’s voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?

Literal Translation
Has a people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and lived?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that a people hath herde ye voyce of God speake out of the fyre (as thou hast herde) & yet liued.

American Standard Version
Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

Bible in Basic English
Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Dyd euer any people heare the voyce of God speakyng out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast hearde, and yet lyued?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

King James Version (1611)
Did euer people heare the voyce of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and liue?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
if a nation have heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard and hast lived;

English Revised Version
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

Berean Standard Bible
Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that a puple herde the vois of God spekynge fro the myddis of the fier, as thou herdist, and siest;

Young's Literal Translation
Hath a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, thou -- and doth live?

Update Bible Version
Did ever a people hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

Webster's Bible Translation
Did [ever] people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

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

New King James Version
Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

New Living Translation
Has any nation ever heard the voice of God speaking from fire—as you did—and survived?

New Life Bible
Have any people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the center of the fire, as you have heard it, and still live?

New Revised Standard
Has any people ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Did a people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of fire, as, thou, didst hear, and yet live?

Douay-Rheims Bible
That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived:

Revised Standard Version
Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?

Contextual Overview

¹ "And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord , the God of your fathers, is giving you. ² You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you. ³ Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor. ⁴ But you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today. ⁵ See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. ⁶ Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.' ⁷ For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? ⁸ And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today? ⁹ "Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children— ¹⁰ how on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 4:24-26, Deuteronomy 9:10, Exodus 19:18, Exodus 19:19, Exodus 20:18, Exodus 20:19, Exodus 24:11, Exodus 33:20, Judges 6:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:8 - And they Exodus 19:4 - seen Deuteronomy 4:12 - only ye heard a voice Deuteronomy 4:36 - General Deuteronomy 5:4 - General Deuteronomy 5:24 - he liveth Deuteronomy 5:26 - who is 1 Kings 19:12 - a fire Nehemiah 9:13 - spakest Psalms 75:1 - wondrous Isaiah 6:8 - I heard Isaiah 40:25 - General Acts 7:36 - after Hebrews 12:19 - and the voice

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Did [ever] people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire,.... None ever heard the voice of God as they did, much less speaking such words as they heard, and still less out of the midst of fire, which was their case, Deuteronomy 4:12

as thou hast heard, and live? which was stranger still, when they might have expected they should, and doubtless feared they would be, as it was wonderful they were not, consumed by it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unwilling, as it might seem, to close his discourse with words of terror, Moses makes a last appeal to them in these verses in a different strain.

Deuteronomy 4:34

Temptations - Compare Deuteronomy 7:18-19; Deuteronomy 29:2-3; not, “i. e.” the tribulations and persecutions undergone by the Israelites, out the plagues miraculously inflicted on the Egyptians.

Deuteronomy 4:37

He chose their seed after them - literally, “his seed after him.” Speaking of the love of God to their fathers in general, Moses has more especially in mind that one of them who was called “the Friend of God” James 2:23.

Brought thee out in his sight - literally, “by His face:” “i. e.” by the might of His personal presence. Compare Exodus 33:14; where God promises “My presence (literally ‘My face’) shall go with thee.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 4:33. Did ever people hear the voice of God — It seems to have been a general belief that if God appeared to men, it was for the purpose of destroying them; and indeed most of the extraordinary manifestations of God were in the way of judgment; but here it was different; God did appear in a sovereign and extraordinary manner; but it was for the deliverance and support of the people.

1. They heard his voice speaking with them in a distinct, articulate manner.

2. They saw the fire, the symbol of his presence, the appearances of which demonstrated it to be supernatural.

3. Notwithstanding God appeared so terrible, yet no person was destroyed, for he came, not to destroy, but to save.