Deuteronomy 5:4
New International Version
The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

New Living Translation
At the mountain the LORD spoke to you face to face from the heart of the fire.

English Standard Version
The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

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

New King James Version
The LORD talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.

New American Standard Bible
The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire,

NASB 1995
“The LORD spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire,

NASB 1977
“The LORD spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire,

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire.

Amplified Bible
The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire.

Christian Standard Bible
The LORD spoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD spoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain.

American Standard Version
Jehovah spake with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Face to face LORD JEHOVAH spoke with you in the mountain from within the fire.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The Lord spoke to you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD himself spoke to you out of the fire,

Douay-Rheims Bible
He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire.

English Revised Version
The LORD spake with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD spoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain.

Good News Translation
There on the mountain the LORD spoke to you face-to-face from the fire.

International Standard Version
The LORD spoke to you face to face on the mountain from the fire.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The LORD spoke with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire--

Literal Standard Version
YHWH has spoken with you face to face on the mountain, out of the midst of the fire;

Majority Standard Bible
The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

New American Bible
Face to face, the LORD spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire,

NET Bible
The LORD spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the fire.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire,

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD talked with you face to face on the mount, from the midst of the fire,

World English Bible
Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,

Young's Literal Translation
Face to face hath Jehovah spoken with you, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire;

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Context
The Covenant in Horeb
3He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today. 4The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

Cross References
Exodus 19:18
Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

Numbers 14:14
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

Deuteronomy 4:33
Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 34:10
Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face--


Treasury of Scripture

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

Deuteronomy 5:24-26
And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth…

Deuteronomy 4:33,36
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? …

Deuteronomy 34:10
And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

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(4) The Lord talked with you face to face.--Yet they saw no manner of similitude (Deuteronomy 4:12), i.e., no visible form: but the very words of God reached their ears. So in Exodus 20:22, "Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven."

Verses 4, 5. - The Lord talked with you face to face. God spoke to them immediately, in their presence and to their face, from the mount, as one person might to another. There is a slight difference in form between the phrase here and that in Exodus 33:11 and Deuteronomy 34:10, where it is used in reference to Moses, but it is so slight (בְּפָּנִים instead of אֶל־פָּנִים) that no difference of meaning can be elicited. God spake directly to the people, as he did to Moses, only Moses was admitted to closer communion with him than the people were. This difference is sufficiently indicated in ver. 5, where the mediatory function of Moses, in the promulgation of the Law and the making of the covenant, is described as necessitated by the fear of the people, and their not going up into the mount (cf. Exodus 19:19, etc.). This is referred to more fully afterwards (ver. 23, etc.). I stood between the Lord and you; i.e. acted as mediator; LXX., εἱστήκειν ἀνὰ μέσον (cf. Galatians 3:19).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The LORD
יְהוָ֧ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

spoke
דִּבֶּ֨ר (dib·ber)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

to
עִמָּכֶ֛ם (‘im·mā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

you face
פָּנִ֣ים ׀ (pā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6440: The face

to face
בְּפָנִ֗ים (bə·p̄ā·nîm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6440: The face

out of
מִתּ֥וֹךְ (mit·tō·wḵ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre

the fire
הָאֵֽשׁ׃ (hā·’êš)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 784: A fire

on the mountain.
בָּהָ֖ר (bā·hār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country


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