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New Living Translation

Deuteronomy 5:4

At the mountain the Lord spoke to you face to face from the heart of the fire.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Decalogue;   Law;   Obedience;   Prophets;   Table;   Scofield Reference Index - Law of Moses;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Commandments, the Ten;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Face;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baptism of Fire;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Law;   Ten Commandments;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Face;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Encampment at Sinai;   Events of the Encampment;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Palmyra;   Revelation;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire,
King James Version
The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
Lexham English Bible
Face to face Yahweh spoke with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire.
English Standard Version
The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,
New Century Version
The Lord spoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain.
New English Translation
The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.
Amplified Bible
"The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire.
New American Standard Bible
"The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire,
Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lord talked with you face to face in the Mount, out of the middes of the fire.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord himself spoke to you out of the fire,
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai spoke with you face to face from the fire on the mountain.
Darby Translation
Face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire Jehovah spoke with you
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord spoke with you face to face at that mountain. He spoke to you from the fire.
George Lamsa Translation
The LORD talked with you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire,
Good News Translation
There on the mountain the Lord spoke to you face-to-face from the fire.
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord spoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain.
Literal Translation
Jehovah talked with you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He talked with vs face to face out of the fyre vpo the mount.
American Standard Version
Jehovah spake with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire
Bible in Basic English
The word of the Lord came to you face to face on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lorde talked with you face to face in the mount, out of the middes of the fire:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The LORD spoke with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire--
King James Version (1611)
The Lord talked with you, face to face, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord spoke to you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire.
English Revised Version
The LORD spake with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Face to face he spak to vs in the hil, fro the myddis of the fier.
Young's Literal Translation
Face to face hath Jehovah spoken with you, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire;
Update Bible Version
Yahweh spoke with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD talked with you face to face on the mount, from the midst of the fire,
World English Bible
Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire,
New King James Version
The LORD talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.
New Life Bible
The Lord spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the center of the fire.
New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the fire.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Face to face, spake Yahweh with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
Douay-Rheims Bible
He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire.
Revised Standard Version
The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The LORD spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire,

Contextual Overview

1 Moses called all the people of Israel together and said, "Listen carefully, Israel. Hear the decrees and regulations I am giving you today, so you may learn them and obey them! 2 "The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Mount Sinai. 3 The Lord did not make this covenant with our ancestors, but with all of us who are alive today. 4 At the mountain the Lord spoke to you face to face from the heart of the fire. 5 I stood as an intermediary between you and the Lord , for you were afraid of the fire and did not want to approach the mountain. He spoke to me, and I passed his words on to you. This is what he said:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 5:24-26, Deuteronomy 4:33, Deuteronomy 4:36, Deuteronomy 34:10, Exodus 19:9, Exodus 19:18, Exodus 19:19, Exodus 20:18-22, Exodus 33:11, Numbers 12:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:22 - General Numbers 14:14 - art seen Deuteronomy 4:12 - the Lord Deuteronomy 5:22 - These words Deuteronomy 10:4 - which Nehemiah 9:13 - spakest Psalms 97:3 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
Then God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground."
Genesis 5:1
This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them to be like himself.
Genesis 5:3
When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of a son who was just like him—in his very image. He named his son Seth.
Genesis 5:7
After the birth of Enosh, Seth lived another 807 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:10
After the birth of Kenan, Enosh lived another 815 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:13
After the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan lived another 840 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:19
After the birth of Enoch, Jared lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:22
After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch lived in close fellowship with God for another 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:26
After the birth of Lamech, Methuselah lived another 782 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:30
After the birth of Noah, Lamech lived another 595 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount,.... Meaning, not in that free, friendly, and familiar manner, in which he sometimes talked with Moses, of whom this phrase is used, Exodus 33:11, but publicly, audibly, clearly, and distinctly, or without the interposition of another; he did not speak to them by Moses, but to them themselves; he talked to them without a middle person between them, as Aben Ezra expresses it: without making use of one to relate to them what he said; but he talked to them directly, personally:

out of the midst of the fire; in which he descended, and with which the mountain was burning all the time he was speaking; which made it very awful and terrible, and pointed at the terrors of the legal dispensation.


 
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