Deuteronomium 5:25

Clementine Latin Vulgate

tollet sacerdos de manu ejus sacrificium zelotypiæ, et elevabit illud coram Domino, imponetque illud super altare, ita dumtaxat ut prius :

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Cur ergo moriemur, et devorabit nos ignis hic maximus? si enim audierimus ultra vocem Domini Dei nostri, moriemur.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Nunc autem cur moriemur, et devorabit nos ignis hic maximus? Si enim audierimus ultra vocem Domini Dei nostri, moriemur.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

this great: Deuteronomy 18:16, Deuteronomy 33:2, 2 Corinthians 3:7-9, Galatians 3:10, Galatians 3:21, Galatians 3:22, Hebrews 12:29

hear: Heb. add to hear

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:8 - And they Isaiah 33:14 - Who among us shall dwell with the Matthew 8:34 - they besought Mark 5:17 - General Luke 8:37 - besought Acts 10:33 - are we

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore why should we die?.... Since we are now alive, and have so wonderfully escaped the danger we were exposed unto, let us be careful that we are not liable to it again:

for this great fire will consume us: if it continues, and we are exposed to it; perhaps some of them might remember the fire that burnt in the uttermost parts of the camp at Taberah, and the destruction of Korah and the two hundred and fifty men with him by fire, Numbers 11:1,

if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die; for it was such a voice of words they could not endure as to the matter of them, and therefore entreated the word might not be spoken to them any more; it being the killing letter, and the ministration of condemnation and death; and the manner in which it was delivered was so terrible, that they concluded they could not live, but must die if they heard it again; and imagined that if the fire continued, the flames of it would spread and reach them, and they would not be able to escape them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses contain a much fuller narrative of the events briefly described in Exodus 20:18-21. Here it is important to call attention to the fact that it was on the entreaties of the people that Moses had taken on him to be the channel of communication between God and them. God approved Deuteronomy 5:28 the request of the people, because it showed a feeling of their own unworthiness to enter into direct communion with God. The terrors of Sinai had done their work; they had awakened the consciousness of sin.