Deuteronomy 4:12

The LORD spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only 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

11You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

13He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.

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Cross References

Numbers 12:8With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see the LORD’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

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

Deuteronomy 5:4The LORD spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,

Deuteronomy 9:10The LORD delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which the LORD spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.

1 Kings 19:12After the earthquake a fire passed; but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.

Isaiah 40:3The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for 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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