“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Parallel translations
- KJV I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
- BSB “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- NKJV ‘I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- NASB ‘I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- NLT “I am the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Exod 20:2–17“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Ps 81:5–10He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.
- Deut 4:4But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.
- Lev 26:1–2“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up an engraved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.
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