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For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
Micah 6:4 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
  • BSB For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.
  • NKJV For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I redeemed you from the house of bondage; And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
  • NASB “Indeed, I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I redeemed you from the house of slavery, And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
  • NLT For I brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from slavery. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to help you.

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Quick answer

God recalls the exodus and the leaders He gave to redeem Israel from slavery. It grounds His claim on Israel in His saving acts of redemption.

Overview

The LORD's defense in His lawsuit is His history of salvation: He brought Israel up from Egypt, ransomed them from bondage, and provided Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead them. Redemption, not burden, defines His dealings with His people. The exodus stands as the Old Testament's great picture of redemption, fulfilled when Christ delivers His people from the deeper bondage of sin.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • Deut 7:8But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  • Exod 12:51And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
  • Ps 136:10–11To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:
  • Amos 2:10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
  • Isa 63:9–12In 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 bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
  • Exod 15:20–21And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
  • Exod 20:2I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
  • Jer 32:21And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;
  • 2 Sam 7:23And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
  • Num 12:1And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
  • Acts 7:36He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
  • Deut 5:6I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
  • Neh 9:9–11And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
  • Ps 106:7–10Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
  • Deut 15:15And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
  • Ps 77:20Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
  • Exod 4:16And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
  • Exod 14:30–31Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
  • Ezek 20:5–9And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
  • Deut 4:34Or 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?
  • Deut 24:18But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
  • Deut 9:26I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
  • Ps 78:51–53And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
  • Deut 4:20But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

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Christ at the center

Micah names the town — 'But you, Bethlehem... from you shall come forth one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origins are from of old' — the birthplace of the eternal King.

How Micah 6:4 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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