Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Holman Bible
Has a people heard God’s voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?
International Standard Version
Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of a fire just as you did, and survived it?
A Conservative Version
Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou have heard, and live?
American Standard Version
Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Amplified
Did [any] people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you heard, and [still] live?
Bible in Basic English
Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did?
Darby Translation
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Julia Smith Translation
Did people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire as thou didst hear, and shall live?
King James 2000
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Has a people [ever] heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, [just] as you heard [it], and lived?
Modern King James verseion
Did people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as you have heard and live?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that a nation hath heard the voice of God speaking out of fire as thou hast heard, and yet lived?
New Heart English Bible
Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
The Emphasized Bible
Did a people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of fire, as, thou, didst hear, and yet live?
Webster
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
World English Bible
Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Youngs Literal Translation
Hath a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, thou -- and doth live?
Themes
Miracles » Catalogue of » Thundering and lightning on mount sinai
Obligation » A motive of obedience
Unity of God » Exhibited in » His unparalleled election and care of his people
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 4:33
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Lord Alone Is God
32 Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it. 33 Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it? 34 Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:24
You 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.
Exodus 24:11
But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.
Exodus 33:20
But he added, "You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live."
Deuteronomy 5:26
Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?
Judges 6:22
When Gideon realized that it was the Lord's messenger, he said, "Oh no! Master, Lord! I have seen the Lord's messenger face to face!"
Exodus 19:18-19
Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.
Exodus 20:18-19
All 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 20:22
The Lord said to Moses: "Thus you will tell the Israelites: 'You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.
Deuteronomy 4:24-26
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 9:10
The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.