Deuteronomy 5:4

5:4 The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

Deuteronomy 4:33

4:33 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?

Deuteronomy 4:12

4:12 Then the Lord spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything – only a voice was heard. ¹ 

Deuteronomy 4:15

The Nature of Israel’s God

4:15 Be very careful, ²  then, because you saw no form at the time the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.

Deuteronomy 4:36

4:36 From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words. ³ 

Deuteronomy 5:23

5:23 Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me.

Deuteronomy 5:26

5:26 Who is there from the entire human race ⁴  who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

Deuteronomy 5:22

The Narrative of the Sinai Revelation and Israel’s Response

5:22 The Lord said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. ⁵  Then he inscribed the words ⁶  on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 5:24

5:24 You said, “The Lord our God has shown us his great glory ⁷  and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us ⁸  that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.

Deuteronomy 9:10

9:10 The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger ⁹  of God, and on them was everything ¹⁰  he ¹¹  said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

Deuteronomy 10:4

10:4 The Lord ¹²  then wrote on the tablets the same words, ¹³  the ten commandments, ¹⁴  which he ¹⁵  had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he ¹⁶  gave them to me.

[4:12]  ¹ tn The words “was heard” are supplied in the translation to avoid the impression that the voice was seen.

[4:15]  ¹ tn Heb “give great care to your souls.”

[4:36]  ¹ tn Heb “and his words you heard from the midst of the fire.”

[5:26]  ¹ tn Heb “who is there of all flesh.”

[5:22]  ¹ tn Heb “and he added no more” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NLT “This was all he said at that time.”

[5:22]  ² tn Heb “them”; the referent (the words spoken by the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:24]  ¹ tn Heb “his glory and his greatness.”

[5:24]  ² tn Heb “this day we have seen.”

[9:10]  ¹ sn The very finger of God. This is a double figure of speech (1) in which God is ascribed human features (anthropomorphism) and (2) in which a part stands for the whole (synecdoche). That is, God, as Spirit, has no literal finger nor, if he had, would he write with his finger. Rather, the sense is that God himself – not Moses in any way – was responsible for the composition of the Ten Commandments (cf. Exod 31:18; 32:16; 34:1).

[9:10]  ² tn Heb “according to all the words.”

[9:10]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord” (likewise at the beginning of vv. 12, 13). See note on “he” in 9:3.

[10:4]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:4]  ² tn Heb “according to the former writing.” See note on the phrase “the same words” in v. 2.

[10:4]  ³ tn Heb “ten words.” The “Ten Commandments” are known in Hebrew as the “Ten Words,” which in Greek became the “Decalogue.”

[10:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[10:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” earlier in this verse.