Acts 7:36
34 I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
35 This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
37 This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
38 He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
- KJV
- He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
- WEB
- This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
- ASV
- This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
- DARBY
- *He* led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
- BLB
- this one led them out, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
- ÅB
- Han var den som førte dem ut, idet han gjorde undergjerninger og tegn i Egypt og i det Røde Hav og i ørkenen i førti år.
- OTB
- Han ledet dem ut, og utførte underverker og tegn i Egypt, ved Rødehavet, og i førti år i ørkenen.
- B1930
- Han var den som førte dem ut, idet han gjorde undergjerninger og tegn i Egyptens land og i det Røde Hav og i ørkenen i firti år.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 12:41
At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.
Read in contextExodus 14:21
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
Read in contextExodus 33:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’
Read in contextPsalms 78:12–33
He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
Read in contextExodus 16:35
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
Read in contextExodus 7:1–14
The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
Read in contextExodus 14:27–29
So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.
Read in contextExodus 19:1–20
In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
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