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When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;
Psalms 114:1 · World English Bible
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  • 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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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 8

  • 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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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 114:1 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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