The Meaning of Deuteronomy 5:4 Explained

Deuteronomy 5:4

KJV: The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

YLT: Face to face hath Jehovah spoken with you, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire;

Darby: Face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire Jehovah spoke with you

ASV: Jehovah spake with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Deuteronomy 5:4?

MEANING: What does Deuteronomy 5:4 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Deuteronomy 5:4 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Deuteronomy 5:4?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

The LORD  talked  with you face  to face  in the mount  out of the midst  of the fire, 

What does Deuteronomy 5:4 Mean?

Context Summary

Deuteronomy 5:1-21 - The Decalogue Repeated
The Law of God is for "all Israel." None are exempt. "Not with our fathers" means not with them only; Moses also uses the expression because many of the references of the Decalogue were to the settled life of Canaan. "Face to face," not in dark visions, but clearly and lucidly, Job 4:12-13. Our "face-to-face" vision is yet to come, 1 Corinthians 13:12; Revelation 22:4. Notice in Deuteronomy 5:5 the ideal mediator, Galatians 3:19; 1 Timothy 2:5.
Every soul has two givings of the Law. First, we stand under Sinai to be judged, condemned, and shut up to Christ as our only hope; then we come to it a second time, asking that the Holy Spirit should write it in our hearts, and make us to walk in obedience to its precepts, Galatians 3:23; Romans 8:4.
Adolphe Monod, on his death-bed, said: "Sin has two divisions; the evil that we have done and the good that we have left undone. As to the first, there is not a single command that I have not transgressed in letter or spirit; as to the second, it weighs on me even more than the first." [source]

Chapter Summary: Deuteronomy 5

1  The covenant in Horeb
6  The ten commandments
23  At the people's request Moses receives the law from God

What do the individual words in Deuteronomy 5:4 mean?

Face to face talked Yahweh with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire
פָּנִ֣ים ׀ בְּפָנִ֗ים דִּבֶּ֨ר יְהוָ֧ה עִמָּכֶ֛ם בָּהָ֖ר מִתּ֥וֹךְ הָאֵֽשׁ

פָּנִ֣ים ׀  Face 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
בְּפָנִ֗ים  to  face 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine plural
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
דִּבֶּ֨ר  talked 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: דָּבַר 
Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
יְהוָ֧ה  Yahweh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
עִמָּכֶ֛ם  with  you 
Parse: Preposition, second person masculine plural
Root: עִם  
Sense: with.
בָּהָ֖ר  on  the  mountain 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: הַר  
Sense: hill, mountain, hill country, mount.
מִתּ֥וֹךְ  from  the  midst 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: תָּוֶךְ  
Sense: midst, middle.
הָאֵֽשׁ  of  the  fire 
Parse: Article, Noun, common singular
Root: אֵשׁ  
Sense: fire.

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