Deuteronomy 5:22

These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

These words {H1697} the LORD {H3068} spake {H1696} unto all your assembly {H6951} in the mount {H2022} out of the midst {H8432} of the fire {H784}, of the cloud {H6051}, and of the thick darkness {H6205}, with a great {H1419} voice {H6963}: and he added no more {H3254}. And he wrote {H3789} them in two {H8147} tables {H3871} of stone {H68}, and delivered {H5414} them unto me.

"These words ADONAI spoke to your entire gathering at the mountain from fire, cloud and thick mist, in a loud voice; then it ceased. But he wrote them on two stone tablets, which he gave to me.

The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

These words Jehovah spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.

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Cross-References

  • Exodus 31:18 (6 votes)

    And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

  • Exodus 24:12 (6 votes)

    ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

  • Deuteronomy 4:36 (4 votes)

    Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

  • Deuteronomy 5:4 (4 votes)

    The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

  • Deuteronomy 4:12 (3 votes)

    And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only [ye heard] a voice.

  • Deuteronomy 4:15 (3 votes)

    Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day [that] the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

  • Exodus 19:18 (3 votes)

    And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.