Exodus 6:7 “I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you wil…”

Exodus 6:7

I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

World English Bible

I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

American Standard Version

and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Geneva Bible 1599

Also I will take you for my people, and will be your God: then ye shall knowe that I the Lord your God bring you out from the burdens of the Egyptians.

Darby Translation

And I will take you to me for a people, and will be your God; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah your God, am he who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Young's Literal Translation

and have taken you to Me for a people, and I have been to you for God, and ye have known that I [am] Jehovah your God, who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians;

Bible in Basic English

And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

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Cross references

“will take”

Deuteronomy 7:6 Deuteronomy 4:20 Deuteronomy 14:2 Deuteronomy 26:18 Jeremiah 31:33 Hosea 1:10

Deuteronomy 7:6 · BSB

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 4:20 · BSB

Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.

Deuteronomy 14:2 · BSB

for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:18 · BSB

And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,

Jeremiah 31:33 · BSB

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Hosea 1:10 · BSB

Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘s…

“I will be”

Deuteronomy 29:13 Revelation 21:7 Zechariah 13:9 Matthew 22:32 Romans 8:31 Hebrews 11:16

Deuteronomy 29:13 · BSB

and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Revelation 21:7 · BSB

The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.

Zechariah 13:9 · BSB

This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our G…

Matthew 22:32 · BSB

‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ ? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

Romans 8:31 · BSB

What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Hebrews 11:16 · BSB

Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

“from under”

Psalm 81:6 Exodus 5:4 Exodus 5:5

Psalm 81:6 · BSB

“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

Exodus 5:4 · BSB

But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!”

Exodus 5:5 · BSB

Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor.”

Also

Exodus 16:12 Exodus 6:6 Isaiah 41:20

Exodus 16:12 · BSB

“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”

Exodus 6:6 · BSB

Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment…

Isaiah 41:20 · BSB

so that all may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it.”

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

In context

6Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

8And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”

Read Exodus 6