Deuteronomy 4:33

33 Has any other people heard the voice of God^[a] speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?

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Deuteronomy 4:33 in Other Translations

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

33 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?

NLT

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

MSG

33 Has a people ever heard, as you did, a god speaking out of the middle of the fire and lived to tell the story?

CSB

33 Has a people ever heard God's voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 4:33 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:33

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 Deuteronomy 4:15 )

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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Deuteronomy 4:33 In-Context

31 For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.

32 Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

33 Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?

34 Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

35 You were shown these things so that you might know that the LORD is God; besides him there is no other.

Cross References 1

1. Exodus 20:22; Deuteronomy 5:24-26

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or "of a god"