Acts 7:36
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36 He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.(A)
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Exodus 14:21
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21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.(A)
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Exodus 12:41
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41 At the end of four hundred thirty years, on that very day, all the companies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.(A)
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Exodus 33:1
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The Command to Leave Sinai
33 The Lord said to Moses, “Go, leave this place, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, and go to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’(A)
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Psalm 105:27-36
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27 They performed his signs among them
and miracles in the land of Ham.(A)
28 He sent darkness and made the land dark;
they rebelled[a] against his words.(B)
29 He turned their waters into blood
and caused their fish to die.(C)
30 Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in the chambers of their kings.(D)
31 He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
and gnats throughout their country.(E)
32 He gave them hail for rain
and lightning that flashed through their land.(F)
33 He struck their vines and fig trees
and shattered the trees of their country.
34 He spoke, and the locusts came,
and young locusts without number;(G)
35 they devoured all the vegetation in their land
and ate up the fruit of their ground.
36 He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the first issue of all their strength.(H)
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- 105.28 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb they did not rebel
Psalm 78:12-33
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12 In the sight of their ancestors he worked marvels
in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.(A)
13 He divided the sea and let them pass through it
and made the waters stand like a heap.(B)
14 In the daytime he led them with a cloud
and all night long with a fiery light.(C)
15 He split rocks open in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.(D)
16 He made streams come out of the rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
17 Yet they sinned still more against him,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.(E)
18 They tested God in their heart
by demanding the food they craved.(F)
19 They spoke against God, saying,
“Can God spread a table in the wilderness?(G)
20 Even though he struck the rock so that water gushed out
and torrents overflowed,
can he also give bread
or provide meat for his people?”(H)
21 Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of rage;
a fire was kindled against Jacob,
his anger mounted against Israel,(I)
22 because they had no faith in God
and did not trust his saving power.(J)
23 Yet he commanded the skies above
and opened the doors of heaven;(K)
24 he rained down on them manna to eat
and gave them the grain of heaven.(L)
25 Mortals ate of the bread of angels;
he sent them food in abundance.
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by his power he led out the south wind;(M)
27 he rained flesh upon them like dust,
winged birds like the sand of the seas;(N)
28 he let them fall within their camp,
all around their dwellings.
29 And they ate and were well filled,
for he gave them what they craved.(O)
30 But before they had satisfied their craving,
while the food was still in their mouths,
31 the anger of God rose against them,
and he killed the strongest of them
and laid low the flower of Israel.(P)
32 In spite of all this they still sinned;
they did not believe in his wonders.(Q)
33 So he made their days vanish like a breath
and their years in terror.(R)
Exodus 16:35
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35 The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a habitable land; they ate manna, until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.(A)
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Exodus 14:27-29
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27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea returned to its normal depth. As the Egyptians fled before it, the Lord tossed the Egyptians into the sea.(A) 28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the chariot drivers, the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not one of them remained.(B) 29 But the Israelites walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.(C)
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Exodus 7:1-14
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7 The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.(A) 2 You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.(B) 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.(C) 4 When Pharaoh does not listen to you, I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring my people the Israelites, company by company, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.(D) 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”(E) 6 Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.(F) 7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.(G)
Aaron’s Miraculous Rod
8 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9 “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a wonder,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.’ ”(H) 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the Lord had commanded; Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.(I) 11 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same by their secret arts.(J) 12 Each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes, but Aaron’s staff swallowed up theirs. 13 However, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.(K)
The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood
14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.(L)
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Hebrews 8:9
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9 not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors
on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt,
for they did not continue in my covenant,
and so I had no concern for them, says the Lord.
Acts 13:18
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18 For about forty years he put up with[a] them in the wilderness.(A)
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- 13.18 Other ancient authorities read cared for
Acts 7:42
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42 But God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:
‘Did you offer to me slain victims and sacrifices
forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?(A)
Psalm 136:9-21
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9 the moon and stars to rule over the night,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
10 who struck Egypt through their firstborn,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(A)
11 and brought Israel out from among them,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(B)
12 with a strong hand and an outstretched arm,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(C)
13 who divided the Red Sea[a] in two,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(D)
14 and made Israel pass through the midst of it,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(E)
15 but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,[b]
for his steadfast love endures forever;(F)
16 who led his people through the wilderness,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(G)
who made water flow from the rock,
for his steadfast love endures forever;[c]
17 who struck down great kings,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(H)
18 and killed famous kings,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
19 Sihon, king of the Amorites,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
20 and Og, king of Bashan,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
21 and gave their land as a heritage,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(I)
Psalm 135:8-12
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8 He it was who struck down the firstborn of Egypt,
both humans and animals;(A)
9 he sent signs and wonders
into your midst, O Egypt,
against Pharaoh and all his servants.(B)
10 He struck down many nations
and killed mighty kings—(C)
11 Sihon, king of the Amorites,
and Og, king of Bashan,
and all the kingdoms of Canaan—(D)
12 and gave their land as a heritage,
a heritage to his people Israel.(E)
Psalm 106:17-18
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17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan
and covered the faction of Abiram.(A)
18 Fire also broke out in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.(B)
Psalm 106:8-11
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8 Yet he saved them for his name’s sake,
so that he might make known his mighty power.(A)
9 He rebuked the Red Sea,[a] and it became dry;
he led them through the deep as through a desert.(B)
10 So he saved them from the hand of the foe
and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.(C)
11 The waters covered their adversaries;
not one of them was left.(D)
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- 106.9 Or Sea of Reeds
Psalm 105:39-45
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39 He spread a cloud for a covering
and fire to give light by night.(A)
40 They asked, and he brought quails
and gave them food from heaven in abundance.(B)
41 He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed through the desert like a river.(C)
42 For he remembered his holy promise
and Abraham, his servant.(D)
43 So he brought his people out with joy,
his chosen ones with singing.
44 He gave them the lands of the nations,
and they took possession of the wealth of the peoples,(E)
45 that they might keep his statutes
and observe his laws.
Praise the Lord!(F)
Psalm 95:10
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10 For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they do not regard my ways.”(A)
Psalm 78:42-51
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42 They did not keep in mind his power
or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
43 when he displayed his signs in Egypt
and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
44 He turned their rivers to blood,
so that they could not drink of their streams.(A)
45 He sent among them swarms of flies that devoured them
and frogs that destroyed them.(B)
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
and their sycamores with frost.(C)
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail
and their flocks to thunderbolts.(D)
49 He let loose on them his fierce anger,
wrath, indignation, and distress,
a company of destroying angels.(E)
50 He made a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death
but gave their lives over to the plague.
51 He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.(F)
Nehemiah 9:18-22
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18 Even when they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,(A) 19 you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud that led them in the way did not leave them by day nor the pillar of fire by night that gave them light on the way by which they should go.(B) 20 You gave your good spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouths and gave them water for their thirst.(C) 21 Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.(D) 22 And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner,[a] so they took possession of the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan.(E)
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Nehemiah 9:12-15
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12 Moreover, you led them by day with a pillar of cloud and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light on the way in which they should go.(A) 13 You came down also upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,(B) 14 and you made known your holy Sabbath to them and gave them commandments and statutes and a law through Moses your servant.(C) 15 For their hunger you gave them bread from heaven, and for their thirst you brought water for them out of the rock, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you swore to give them.(D)
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Nehemiah 9:10
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10 You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted insolently against our ancestors. You made a name for yourself that remains to this day.(A)
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Deuteronomy 8:4
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4 The clothes on your back did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years.(A)
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Deuteronomy 6:21-22
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21 then you shall say to your children, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22 The Lord displayed before our eyes great and awesome signs and wonders against Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his household.
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Deuteronomy 4:33-37
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33 Has any people ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?(A) 34 Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by terrifying displays of power, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?(B) 35 To you it was shown so that you would acknowledge that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.(C) 36 From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, while you heard his words coming out of the fire.(D) 37 And because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them. He brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,(E)
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