Ulangan 4:11

4:11 You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it ¹  and yet dark with a thick cloud. ² 

Ulangan 4:36

4:36 From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words. ³ 

Ulangan 5:4

5:4 The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

Ulangan 5:23-24

5:23 Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me. 5:24 You said, “The Lord our God has shown us his great glory ⁴  and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us ⁵  that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.

Ulangan 32:22

32:22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger,

and it burns to lowest Sheol; ⁶ 

it consumes the earth and its produce,

and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

[4:11]  ¹ tn Heb “a mountain burning with fire as far as the heart of the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[4:11]  ² tn Heb “darkness, cloud, and heavy cloud.”

[4:36]  ³ tn Heb “and his words you heard from the midst of the fire.”

[5:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “his glory and his greatness.”

[5:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “this day we have seen.”

[32:22]  ⁶ tn Or “to the lowest depths of the earth”; cf. NAB “to the depths of the nether world”; NIV “to the realm of death below”; NLT “to the depths of the grave.”

[32:22]  sn Sheol refers here not to hell and hell-fire – a much later concept – but to the innermost parts of the earth, as low down as one could get. The parallel with “the foundations of the mountains” makes this clear (cf. Pss 9:17; 16:10; 139:8; Isa 14:9, 15; Amos 9:2).