Bible Strands
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
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Study note
Setting — Stephen addresses the Jewish council, placing Moses between his initial rejection and his future prophetic declaration. The verse functions as a factual summary of God's deliverance campaign.
The words — ἐξήγαγεν (exēgagen) = led out [G1806] and σημεῖα (sēmeia) = signs [G4592] anchor the narrative in concrete divine action rather than human agency.
The thread — The text maps directly to Exodus 12:41 for the departure timeline, Exodus 14:21 for the sea crossing, and Exodus 33:1 for the wilderness directive. These passages supply the historical framework for the three locations named.
Why it lands — The verse demands recognition that God sustained a people through three distinct phases of trial. It requires the reader to attribute leadership and provision to divine intervention rather than human merit.
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The Greek words
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.
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.
- Exodus 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,
- Exodus 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.’
- Exodus 7:1 The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
- Exodus 14:27 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.
- Exodus 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.
- Psalms 78:12 He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
- Exodus 15:23 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 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 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.