New English Translation
Deuteronomy 5:4
4The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.
Deuteronomy 5:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
- New International Version (NIV)The Lord spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,
- New King James Version (NKJV)The Lord talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.
Context of Deuteronomy 5:4
2The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now. The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire. 5(I was standing between the Lord and you at that time to reveal to you the message of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said: 6“I am the Lord your God, he who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery.
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פָּנִ֣ים׀ בְּפָנִ֗ים דִּבֶּ֨ר יְהוָ֧ה עִמָּכֶ֛ם בָּהָ֖ר מִתּ֥וֹךְ הָאֵֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Deuteronomy 5:4
- Deuteronomy 5:24You said, “The Lord our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.
- Deuteronomy 4:33Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?
- Deuteronomy 34:10No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the Lord face to face.
- Exodus 19:9The Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.” And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.
- Exodus 20:18All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking – and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.
- Exodus 33:11The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, the way a person speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent.
- Numbers 12:8With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 5:4
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-32The rest of the covenant laws explain and apply the Ten Commandments (5:6–21). These laws are based on those commandments. Moses first gave the Ten Commandments to the people of Israel almost 40 years earlier at Mount Sinai (Exodus 20:2–17). Now he reminds the people of these commands before they enter the promised land.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount--not in a visible and corporeal form, of which there was no trace (De 4:12, 15), but freely, familiarly, and in such a manner that no doubt could be entertained of His presence.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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