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Moses Intercedes for the People

Deuteronomy 5:26

In 11 translations

BSB
For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
KJV
For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
WEB
For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?
ASV
For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
LSV
For who of all flesh [is] he who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire like us, and lives?
YLT
For who of all flesh [is] he who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire like us — and doth live?
DBY
For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we, and has lived?Elohim
DRC
What is all flesh, that it should hear the voice of the living God, who speaketh out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and be able to live?
GNV
For what flesh was there euer, that heard the voyce of the liuing God speaking out of the middes of the fire as we haue, and liued?
JPS5:23
For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
LXXE
For what flesh is there which has heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and shall live?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
כִּ֣י מִ֣י כָל־בָּשָׂ֡ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׁמַ֣ע קוֹל֩ אֱלֹהִ֨ים חַיִּ֜ים מְדַבֵּ֧ר מִתּוֹךְ־הָאֵ֛שׁ כָּמֹ֖נוּ וַיֶּֽחִי׃
LXX-Br
Τίς γὰρ σὰρξ ἥτις ἤκουσε φωνὴν Θεοῦ ζῶντος, λαλοῦντος ἐκ μέσου τοῦ πυρὸς, ὡς ἡμεῖς, καὶ ζήσεται;

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Part of

  • Sinai and the Ten Commandments After leaving Egypt, Israel camps at Sinai, where God gives commandments amid thunder, smoke and a trembling mountain. Beginning with his re…

Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 4:33Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?
  • Romans 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
  • Genesis 6:12And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
  • Psalms 42:2My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
  • 2 Corinthians 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
  • Matthew 26:63But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.”
  • Acts 14:15“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in…
  • Psalms 84:2My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
  • Isaiah 40:6A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
  • Joshua 3:10He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
  • 1 Thessalonians 1:9For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
  • Daniel 6:26I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never…
  • Jeremiah 10:10But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • Numbered 5:23 in this edition; eBible.org places this text at Deut.5.26 in English numbering (no TVTMS rule covers this edition here).

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