Deuteronomy 4:33

The 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?

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and lived?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Dyd euer any people heare the voyce of God speakyng out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast hearde, and yet lyued?

Easy-to-Read Version
You people heard God speaking to you from a fire, and you are still alive. Has that ever happened to anyone else? No!

Revised Standard Version
Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still 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?

King James Version (1611)
Did euer people heare the voyce of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and liue?

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?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that a people hath herde ye voyce of God speake out of the fyre (as thou hast herde) & yet liued.

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?

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?

Update Bible Version
Did ever a people hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

Webster's Bible Translation
Did [ever] people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

New King James Version
Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

Complete Jewish Bible
Did any other people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and stay alive?

Darby Translation
Did [ever] people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Did euer people heare the voyce of God speaking out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast heard, and liued?

George Lamsa Translation
Did any other people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

Good News Translation
Have any people ever lived after hearing a god speak to them from a fire, as you have?

Amplified Bible
"Did [any] people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you heard, and [still] live?

Hebrew Names Version
Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

New Living Translation
Has any nation ever heard the voice of God speaking from fire—as you did—and survived?

New Life Bible
Have any people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the center of the fire, as you have heard it, and still live?

New Revised Standard
Has any people ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
if a nation have heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard and hast lived;

English Revised Version
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

Berean Standard Bible
Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

J.B. Rotherham 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?

Douay-Rheims Bible
That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived:

Lexham English Bible
Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, just as you heard it, and lived?

Literal Translation
Has a people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and lived?

English Standard Version
Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?

New American Standard Bible
"Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?

New Century Version
No other people have ever heard God speak from a fire and have still lived. But you have.

Christian Standard Bible®
Has a people heard God's voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that a puple herde the vois of God spekynge fro the myddis of the fier, as thou herdist, and siest;

Young's 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?

Contextual Overview

¹ Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord , the God of your ancestors, is giving you. ² Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I am delivering to you. ³ You have witnessed what the Lord did at Baal Peor, how he eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor. ⁴ But you who remained faithful to the Lord your God are still alive to this very day, every one of you. ⁵ Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in the land you are about to enter and possess. ⁶ So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, "Indeed, this great nation is a very wise people." ⁷ In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the Lord our God whenever we call on him? ⁸ And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today? ⁹ Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren. ¹⁰ You stood before the Lord your God at Horeb and he said to me, "Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 4:24-26, Deuteronomy 9:10, Exodus 19:18, Exodus 19:19, Exodus 20:18, Exodus 20:19, Exodus 24:11, Exodus 33:20, Judges 6:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:8 - And they Exodus 19:4 - seen Deuteronomy 4:12 - only ye heard a voice Deuteronomy 4:36 - General Deuteronomy 5:4 - General Deuteronomy 5:24 - he liveth Deuteronomy 5:26 - who is 1 Kings 19:12 - a fire Nehemiah 9:13 - spakest Psalms 75:1 - wondrous Isaiah 6:8 - I heard Isaiah 40:25 - General Acts 7:36 - after Hebrews 12:19 - and the voice

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Did [ever] people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire,.... None ever heard the voice of God as they did, much less speaking such words as they heard, and still less out of the midst of fire, which was their case, Deuteronomy 4:12

as thou hast heard, and live? which was stranger still, when they might have expected they should, and doubtless feared they would be, as it was wonderful they were not, consumed by it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unwilling, as it might seem, to close his discourse with words of terror, Moses makes a last appeal to them in these verses in a different strain.

Deuteronomy 4:34

Temptations - Compare Deuteronomy 7:18-19; Deuteronomy 29:2-3; not, “i. e.” the tribulations and persecutions undergone by the Israelites, out the plagues miraculously inflicted on the Egyptians.

Deuteronomy 4:37

He chose their seed after them - literally, “his seed after him.” Speaking of the love of God to their fathers in general, Moses has more especially in mind that one of them who was called “the Friend of God” James 2:23.

Brought thee out in his sight - literally, “by His face:” “i. e.” by the might of His personal presence. Compare Exodus 33:14; where God promises “My presence (literally ‘My face’) shall go with thee.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 4:33. Did ever people hear the voice of God — It seems to have been a general belief that if God appeared to men, it was for the purpose of destroying them; and indeed most of the extraordinary manifestations of God were in the way of judgment; but here it was different; God did appear in a sovereign and extraordinary manner; but it was for the deliverance and support of the people.

1. They heard his voice speaking with them in a distinct, articulate manner.

2. They saw the fire, the symbol of his presence, the appearances of which demonstrated it to be supernatural.

3. Notwithstanding God appeared so terrible, yet no person was destroyed, for he came, not to destroy, but to save.