Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

New American Standard Bible

“It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And I led you in the wilderness forty years
That you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

And I brought you from the land of Egypt
and led you 40 years in the wilderness
in order to possess the land of the Amorite.

International Standard Version

Furthermore, I brought you up from the land of Egypt, leading you in the wilderness for 40 years, to take possession of the land of the Amorites.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
And I led you forty years through the wilderness
That you might possess the land of the Amorite.

Bible in Basic English

And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.

Darby Translation

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.

Julia Smith Translation

And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and I will cause you to come into the desert forty years to possess the land of the Amorite.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years through the wilderness to possess the land of the Amorite.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Again: I brought you out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, that ye might have the Amorites' land in possession.

NET Bible

I brought you up from the land of Egypt; I led you through the wilderness for forty years so you could take the Amorites' land as your own.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

And it was, I, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, - and led you in the desert, forty years, to take possession of the land of the Amorites;

Webster

Also I brought you from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

And I -- I have brought you up from the land of Egypt, And cause you to go in a wilderness forty years, To possess the land of the Amorite.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

from the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

of Egypt
מצרים 
Mitsrayim 
Usage: 681

and led
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

ארבּעים 
'arba`iym 
Usage: 136

שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

מדבּר 
Midbar 
Usage: 271

to possess
ירשׁ ירשׁ 
Yarash 
Usage: 231

the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

Context Readings

Judgment On Israel

9 Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks, yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 10 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye sons of Israel? says LORD.


Cross References

Exodus 12:51

And it came to pass the selfsame day, that LORD brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

Deuteronomy 2:7

For LORD thy God has blessed thee in all the work of thy hand. He has known thy walking through this great wilderness. These forty years LORD thy God has been with thee; thou have lacked nothing.

Amos 3:1

Hear this word that LORD has spoken against you, O sons of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Exodus 3:8

And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the A

Exodus 20:2

I am LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Numbers 14:31-35

But your little ones, that ye said would be a prey, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

Deuteronomy 1:20-21

And I said to you, Ye have come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which LORD our God gives to us.

Deuteronomy 1:39

Moreover your little ones, who ye said would be a prey, and your sons, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.

Deuteronomy 8:2-4

And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.

Nehemiah 9:8-12

and found his heart faithful before thee, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed

Nehemiah 9:21

Yea, forty years thou sustained them in the wilderness, [and] they lacked nothing; their clothes did not grow old, and their feet did not swell.

Psalm 95:10

Forty years long I was grieved with [that] generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.

Psalm 105:42-43

For he remembered his holy word, [and] Abraham his servant.

Psalm 136:10-11

to him who smote Egypt in their firstborn, for his loving kindness [is] forever,

Jeremiah 32:20-21

who set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among [other] men, and made thee a name, as at this day,

Ezekiel 20:10

So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

Amos 9:7

Are ye not as the sons of the Ethiopians to me, O sons of Israel? says LORD. Have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

Micah 6:4

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.

Acts 7:42

But God turned, and gave them over to serve the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Acts 13:18

And for about a forty-year time he was patient with them in the wilderness.

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