The Lord talked with you face to face. — Yet they saw no manner of similitude (Deuteronomy 4:12), i.e., no visible form: but the very words of God reached their ears. So in Exodus 20:22, “Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.”
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Deuteronomy 5:4
4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,