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- Deuteronomy
- Chapter 5
- Verse 4
Deuteronomy 5:4
The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
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Commentary
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
I stood between the Lord and you at that time,.... Between the Word of the Lord and you, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; that is, about that time, not at the exact precise time the ten…
Here, 1. Moses summons the assembly. He called all Israel; not only the elders, but, it is likely, as many of the people as could come within hearing, Deu 5:1. The greatest of them were not above…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
face to face i.e. person with person, without the intervention of another. The metaphor is hardly an instance of the tendency of D's style to hyperbole 2 [120]. For although all that the people…
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