Acts 13:17

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Summary

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

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And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will shew thee.

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

And because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, he brought thee out with his countenance, with his great power, out of Egypt,

For a holy people art thou unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be unto him a people for a possession, above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou enter in to possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations doth Jehovah thy God dispossess them from before thee, and that he may perform the word which Jehovah swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and thee hath Jehovah chosen for a people of possession unto himself, out of all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

Thou art the Same, Jehovah Elohim, who didst choose Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;

Ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.

For Jah hath chosen Jacob unto himself, Israel for his own possession.

But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend

And now hear, Jacob, my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen:

Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken, saying, The two families that Jehovah had chosen, he hath even cast them off? And they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

But ye are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light;

And exalted

But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

And the children of Israel were fruitful, and swarmed and multiplied, and became exceeding strong; and the land was full of them.

With seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

And Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

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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.

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to Jehovah, and spoke, saying, I will sing unto Jehovah, for he is highly exalted: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they acted haughtily he was above them.

But you hath Jehovah taken, and hath brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, that ye might be to him a people of inheritance, as it is this day.

the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the powerful hand, and the stretched-out arm, whereby Jehovah thy God brought thee out: so will Jehovah thy God do unto all the peoples whom thou fearest.

Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with every plague in the wilderness.

And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;

O God, thy way is in the sanctuary: who is so great a god as God?

In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.

He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen:

Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.

Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast;

To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever,

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days of old.

who hast displayed signs and wonders unto this day, in the land of Egypt and in Israel and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day.

And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

as in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt, will I shew them marvellous things.