Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
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Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Did a people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you, you have heard, and live?
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Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?
Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Did euer people heare the voyce of God speaking out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast heard, and liued?
That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived:
Hath a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, thou -- and doth live?
Has a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, you—and live?
Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Did a people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you, you have heard, and live?
Did [ever] people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, like you have, and survived?
Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did?
Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 26 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
הֲשָׁ֣מַֽע עָם֩ ק֨וֹל אֱלֹהִ֜ים מְדַבֵּ֧ר מִתּוֹךְ הָאֵ֛שׁ כַּאֲשֶׁר שָׁמַ֥עְתָּ אַתָּ֖ה וַיֶּֽחִי
Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
World English Bible · Public Domain
εἰ ἀκούω ἔθνος φωνή θεός ζάω λαλέω ἐκ μέσος ὁ πῦρ ὅς τρόπος ἀκούω σύ καί ζάω
if a nation have heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard and have lived;
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
הַשְׁמַע עַמָא קַל מֵימְרָא דַיְיָ מְמַלֵל מִגוֹ אֶשָׁתָא כְּמָא דִי שְׁמַעַתְּ אַתְּ וְיִתְקַיָם
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
הַאֶפְשָׁר דְּשָׁמַע עַמָא קַל מֵימְרָא דַיְיָ אֱלָהָא קַיֵּם דִּמְמַלֵל מִגּוֹ אֵישָׁא הֵיכְמָא דִשְׁמַעְתּוּן אַתּוּן וְאִתְקַיָּים
Hath it ever been that a people should hear the voice of the Word of the Lord, the Living God, speaking from the midst of fire, as you heard, and remained alive?
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châyâh (“to live”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 4:33 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.