Deuteronomy 4:12

And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire a voice of words, which ye heard: and ye saw no likeness, only ye heard a voice.

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In The King James Version

And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

In Context

11And ye drew nigh and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire up to heaven: there was darkness, blackness, and tempest.

13And he announced to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

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Cross References

Numbers 12:8I will speak to him mouth to mouth apparently, and not in dark speeches; and he has seen the glory of the Lord; and why were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

Deuteronomy 4:33if 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;

Deuteronomy 5:4The Lord spoke to you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire.

Deuteronomy 9:10And the Lord gave me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on them there had been written all the words which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain in the day of the assembly.

1 Kings 19:12and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire the voice of a gentle breeze.

Isaiah 40:3The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:2-41

Exhortations and Arguments. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed… Read the whole commentary →

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