Deuteronomy 5:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ But now why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, we shall die.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, we shall die.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more, then we shall die.

Common English Bible

²⁵ But why should we die? Surely this massive fire will consume us! If we hear any more of the LORD our God’s voice, we will die.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ Therefore, why should we die, and why should this very great fire devour us? For if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, we will die.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ Why shall we die therefore, and why shall this exceeding great fire consume us: for if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die.

Deuteronomy 5:25 Cross References

Genesis 3:10

He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”

Exodus 20:18

When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, they were afraid and trembled and stood at a distance

Exodus 20:19

and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen, but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”

Galatians 3:10

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the things written in the book of the law.”

Deuteronomy 18:16

This is what you requested of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’

Deuteronomy 18:17

Then the Lord replied to me, ‘They are right in what they have said.

Deuteronomy 33:2

He said, “The Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran. With him were myriads of holy ones, at his right, a host of his own.

Deuteronomy 5:24

and you said, ‘Look, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the fire. We have seen this day that God may speak to someone and the person may still live.

Hebrews 12:19

and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them.

Hebrews 12:29

for indeed our God is a consuming fire.