Amos 2:10
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10 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt
and led you forty years in the wilderness,
to possess the land of the Amorite.(A)
Deuteronomy 2:7
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7 Surely the Lord your God has blessed you in all your undertakings; he knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’(A)
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Exodus 12:51
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51 That very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, company by company.(A)
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Amos 3:1
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Israel’s Guilt and Punishment
3 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:(A)
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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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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)
Micah 6:4
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4 For I brought you up from the land of Egypt
and redeemed you from the house of slavery,
and I sent before you Moses,
Aaron, and Miriam.(A)
Amos 9:7
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7 Are you not like the Cushites to me,
O people of Israel? says the Lord.
Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt
and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?(A)
Ezekiel 20:10
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10 So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.(A)
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Jeremiah 32:20-21
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20 You showed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt and to this day in Israel and among all humankind and have made yourself a name that continues to this very day.(A) 21 You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror,(B)
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Psalm 136:10-11
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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)
Psalm 105:42-43
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42 For he remembered his holy promise
and Abraham, his servant.(A)
43 So he brought his people out with joy,
his chosen ones with singing.
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)
Nehemiah 9:21
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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.(A)
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Nehemiah 9:8-12
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8 and you found his heart faithful before you and made with him a covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, and you have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.(A)
9 “And you saw the distress of our ancestors in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.[a](B) 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.(C) 11 And you divided the sea before them, so that they passed through the sea on dry land, but you threw their pursuers into the depths like a stone into mighty waters.(D) 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.(E)
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Deuteronomy 8:2-4
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2 Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.(A) 3 He humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with manna, with which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to make you understand that one does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.(B) 4 The clothes on your back did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years.(C)
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Deuteronomy 1:39
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39 And as for your little ones who you thought would become plunder, your children who today do not yet know right from wrong, they shall enter there; to them I will give it, and they shall take possession of it.(A)
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Deuteronomy 1:20-21
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20 I said to you, ‘You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. 21 See, the Lord your God has given the land to you; go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you; do not fear or be dismayed.’(A)
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Numbers 14:31-35
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31 But your little ones, who you said would become plunder, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have despised.(A) 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.(B) 33 And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.(C) 34 According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’(D) 35 I the Lord have spoken; surely I will do thus to all this wicked congregation gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”(E)
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Exodus 20:2
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2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;(A)
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Exodus 3:8
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8 and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.(A)
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