When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;
Parallel translations
- KJV When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
- BSB When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
- ESV When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
- NKJV When Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
- NASB When Israel went forth from Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of a foreign language,
- NLT When the Israelites escaped from Egypt— when the family of Jacob left that foreign land—
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- 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.
- Exod 12:41–42At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
- Gen 42:23They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
- Ps 81:5He 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 16:1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- Isa 11:16There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
- Deut 26:8Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;
- Exod 20:2“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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