DEU 5:4 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, green:YHWH.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Πρόσωπον κατὰ πρόσωπον ἐλάλησε Κύριος πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐν τῷ ὄρει ἐκ μέσου τοῦ πυρός.
(Prosōpon kata prosōpon elalaʸse Kurios pros humas en tōi orei ek mesou tou puros. )

BrTr The Lord spoke to you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire.

ULT Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain, from the midst of the fire,

UST Yahweh personally spoke with us on that mountain, from the middle of the fire.

OEB No OEB DEU book available

WEBBE The LORD spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

LSV YHWH has spoken with you face to face on the mountain, out of the midst of the fire;

FBV The Lord talked with you person to person from the fire on the mountain.

T4T Yahweh spoke with us face-to-face on that mountain, from the middle of the fire.

LEB Face to face[fn] Yahweh spoke with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire.

5:4 Literally “Faces to faces”

BBE The word of the Lord came to you face to face on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire,

Moff No Moff DEU book available

JPS The LORD spoke with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire —

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

DRA He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire.

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

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

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

Wbstr The LORD talked with you face to face on the mount, from the midst of the fire,

KJB-1769 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

KJB-1611 The LORD talked with you, face to face, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire,
(Same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps The Lorde talked with you face to face in the mount, out of the middes of the fire:
(The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount, out of the midst of the fire:)

Gnva The Lord talked with you face to face in the Mount, out of the middes of the fire.
(The Lord talked with you face to face in the Mount, out of the midst of the fire. )

Cvdl He talked with vs face to face out of the fyre vpo the mount.
(He talked with us face to face out of the fire upo the mount.)

Wycl Face to face he spak to vs in the hil, fro the myddis of the fier.
(Face to face he spake to us in the hill, from the midst of the fier.)

Luth Er hat von Angesicht zu Angesicht mit uns aus dem Feuer auf dem Berge geredet.
(He has from face to face with us/to_us/ourselves out_of to_him fire on to_him mountains/hills geredet.)

ClVg Facie ad faciem locutus est nobis in monte de medio ignis.[fn]
(Facie to face spoke it_is us in mountain about in_the_middle ignis. )

5.4 Facie ad faciem, etc. AUG. Paulo ante admonere curavit, etc., usque ad quamvis aliqui hoc speraverint.

5.4 Facie to faciem, etc. AUG. Paulo before admonere curavit, etc., until to quamvis aliqui this speraverint.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

פָּנִ֣ים ׀ בְּ⁠פָנִ֗ים דִּבֶּ֨ר יְהוָ֧ה עִמָּ⁠כֶ֛ם בָּ⁠הָ֖ר מִ⁠תּ֥וֹךְ הָ⁠אֵֽשׁ

face in/on/at/with,face he/it_had_said YHWH to,you_all in/on/at/with,mountain from,midst the,fire

Moses is referring to the events of Exodus 19, when Yahweh spoke from Mount Sinai from a fire. The Israelite people were afraid of Yahweh and stood far away.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

פָּנִ֣ים ׀ בְּ⁠פָנִ֗ים

face in/on/at/with,face

Here, face represents someone’s presence. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression from your language or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “in your presence”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / distinguish

פָּנִ֣ים ׀ בְּ⁠פָנִ֗ים

face in/on/at/with,face

4:15 states that the Israelites only heard Yahweh’s voice but did not see him. Moses means that the Israelites physically and personally heard the voice of Yahweh’s voice. Be sure that this distinction is clear in your translation. Alternate translation: “personally”

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