Deuteronomy 4:12

Then spake Yahweh unto you out of the midst of the fire,—a voice of words, ye were hearing, no form, were ye seeing, there was only a voice.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

11So ye drew near and stood, under the mountain. Now, the mountain, was burning with fire, up to the midst of the heavens,—darkness, cloud, and thick gloom.

13Then declared he unto you his covenant which he commanded you to do, the ten words,—and wrote them upon two tables of stone.

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Cross References

Numbers 12:8Mouth to mouth, do I speak with him And plainly—not in dark sayings, And the form of Yahweh, doth he discern,—Wherefore then, were ye not afraid to speak against my servant—against Moses?

Deuteronomy 4:33Did a people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of fire, as, thou, didst hear, and yet live?

Deuteronomy 5:4Face to face, spake Yahweh with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

Deuteronomy 9:10Then did Yahweh deliver unto me the two tables of stone, written with the finger of God,—and [there was] upon them, according to all the words which Yahweh had spoken with you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the convocation.

1 Kings 19:12And, after the earthquake, a, fire, Not, in the fire, was, Yahweh,—And, after the fire, the voice of a gentle whisper.

Isaiah 40:3A voice of one crying!—In the desert, prepare ye the way of Yahweh,—Make smooth in the waste plain a highway 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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