Acts 7:36 “He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt,…”

Acts 7:36

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

American Standard Version

This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Geneva Bible 1599

Hee brought them out, doing wonders, and miracles in the land of Egypt, and in the red sea, and in the wildernes fourtie yeeres.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

this one did bring them forth, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years;

Bible in Basic English

This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

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Cross references

“brought”

Exodus 12:41 Exodus 33:1

Exodus 12:41 · BSB

At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 33:1 · BSB

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…

“after”

Exodus 7:1–14 Deuteronomy 4:33–37 Nehemiah 9:10 Psalm 78:42–51 Psalm 105:27–36 Psalm 106:8–11

Exodus 7:1–14 · BSB

The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

Deuteronomy 4:33–37 · BSB

Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

Nehemiah 9:10 · BSB

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.

Psalm 78:42–51 · BSB

They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

Psalm 105:27–36 · BSB

They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

Psalm 106:8–11 · BSB

Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

“in the Red”

Exodus 14:21 Exodus 14:27–29

Exodus 14:21 · BSB

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,

Exodus 14:27–29 · BSB

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.

“and in the wilderness”

Exodus 15:23–25 Exodus 16:1–17 Exodus 19:1–20 Numbers 11:1–35 Numbers 14:1–45 Numbers 16:1–17

Exodus 15:23–25 · BSB

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)

Exodus 16:1–17 · BSB

On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.

Exodus 19:1–20 · BSB

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.

Numbers 11:1–35 · BSB

Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 14:1–45 · BSB

Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.

Numbers 16:1–17 · BSB

Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—conducted

Also

Exodus 16:35 Acts 7:42 Acts 13:18 Hebrews 8:9 Psalm 95:10

Exodus 16:35 · BSB

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.

Acts 7:42 · BSB

But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Is…

Acts 13:18 · BSB

He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

Hebrews 8:9 · BSB

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord.

Psalm 95:10 · BSB

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

35This 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.

37This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

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