Deuteronomy 5:25 - Revised Standard Version CI

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, 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

And he said, “I heard the sound of thee in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

Exodus 20:18

Now when all the people perceived the thunderings and the lightnings and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled; and they stood afar off,

Exodus 20:19

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

Galatians 3:10

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be every one who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, and do them.”

Deuteronomy 18:16

just as you desired 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

And the Lord said to me, ‘They have rightly said all that they have spoken.

Deuteronomy 33:2

He said, “The Lord came from Sinai, and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran, he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.

Deuteronomy 5:24

and you said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire; we have this day seen God speak with man and man still live.

Hebrews 12:19

and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers entreat that no further messages be spoken to them.

Hebrews 12:29

for our God is a consuming fire.