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Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has a god ventured to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, just as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deuteronomy 4:34 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  • KJV Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  • BSB 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?
  • NKJV Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  • NLT Has any other god dared to take a nation for himself out of another nation by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, a strong hand, a powerful arm, and terrifying acts? Yet that is what the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, right before your eyes.

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Quick answer

No god has ever taken a nation out of another by such mighty acts as Yahweh did in Egypt. The exodus proves Yahweh is the true God.

Overview

Moses recounts the trials, signs, wonders, and mighty hand by which God claimed Israel as his own people. The exodus is the great Old Testament redemption, displaying God's power and covenant love. It foreshadows the greater exodus accomplished by Christ, who by his death and resurrection delivers his people from bondage to sin.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Deut 26:8Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;
  • Deut 5:15You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  • Exod 6:6Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
  • Deut 7:19the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
  • Deut 7:8–9but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  • Jer 32:21and brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
  • Deut 6:21then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
  • Exod 13:3Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
  • Ps 78:48–53He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
  • Exod 3:17–20and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
  • Deut 34:12and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome deeds, which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
  • Exod 12:30–33Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
  • Exod 3:10Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
  • Exod 10:7Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”
  • 1 Pet 5:6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;
  • Exod 7:3I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 9:20–21Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.
  • Deut 29:3the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
  • Exod 1:9He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
  • Ps 78:12He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

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Christ at the center

Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).

How Deuteronomy 4:34 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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