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Deuteronomy 26:8
Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses the Israelite assembly on the plains of Moab, directing them to recite their covenant history before crossing into the Promised Land. The words — יְהוָה֙ (Yah.weh) = Yahweh and נְטוּיָ֔ה (ne.tu.Yah) = outstretched. The text records Yahweh’s direct action using a strong hand and an outstretched arm to execute judgment and deliverance. The thread — The Exodus motif recurs in Deuteronomy 4:34, which lists trials, signs, and wonders as divine markers of nation-forming intervention. Exodus 12:37 and 12:41 anchor the event chronologically at the end of the 430-year captivity. Why it lands — The text demands precise recall of the Exodus as a historical act of divine rescue, not a mythic allegory. It requires the reader to acknowledge God’s sovereign agency in liberation and to ground present identity in that recorded deliverance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Exodus 12:37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
- 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 12:51 And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.
- Exodus 13:3 So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
- Exodus 14:16 And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
- Deuteronomy 5:15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
- Psalms 78:12 He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
- Psalms 105:27 They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
- Psalms 106:7 Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.