Deuteronomy 4:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:51 : 51 For they are your people and your heritage, which you took out of Egypt, out of the iron fireplace;
  • Jer 11:4 : 4 To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:
  • Deut 9:29 : 29 But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.
  • Deut 32:9 : 9 For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.
  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: 6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
  • Eph 1:18 : 18 And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,
  • Deut 9:26 : 26 And I made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord God, do not send destruction on your people and your heritage, to whom, by your great power, you have given salvation, whom you have taken out of Egypt by the strength of your hand.
  • Ps 28:9 : 9 Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.
  • Ps 33:12 : 12 Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.
  • Ps 135:4 : 4 For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.
  • Isa 63:17-18 : 17 O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage. 18 Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 8:51
    84%

    51For they are your people and your heritage, which you took out of Egypt, out of the iron fireplace;

  • Deut 4:36-38
    3 verses
    80%

    36Out of heaven itself his voice came to you, teaching you; and on earth he let you see his great fire; and his words came to your ears out of the heart of the fire.

    37And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;

    38Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

  • Deut 4:34
    79%

    34Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?

  • Deut 9:29
    79%

    29But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.

  • Jer 11:4
    79%

    4To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:

  • 1 Kgs 8:53
    78%

    53For you made them separate from all the peoples of the earth, to be your heritage, as you said by Moses your servant, when you took our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

  • Deut 7:8
    78%

    8But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

  • Deut 14:2
    76%

    2For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

  • Exod 19:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    4You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself.

    5If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:

    6And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.

  • Josh 24:17
    76%

    17For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:

  • Exod 20:2
    76%

    2I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

  • Exod 6:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

    8And I will be your guide into the land which I made an oath to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for your heritage: I am Yahweh.

  • Deut 26:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders;

    19And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your God as he has said.

  • Deut 4:21
    75%

    21And the Lord was angry with me because of you, and made an oath that I was not to go over Jordan into the good land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage:

  • Judg 6:9
    75%

    9And I took you out of the hands of the Egyptians and out of the hands of all who were cruel to you, and I sent them out by force from before you and gave you their land;

  • Deut 7:6
    75%

    6For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

  • Lev 22:33
    75%

    33Who took you out of the land of Egypt that I might be your God: I am the Lord.

  • Deut 29:16
    75%

    16(For you have in mind how we were living in the land of Egypt; and how we came through all the nations which were on your way;

  • Deut 5:6
    75%

    6I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

  • Deut 1:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

    30The Lord your God who goes before you will be fighting for you, and will do such wonders as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

    31And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place.

  • Jer 32:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20You have done signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day, in Israel and among other men; and have made a name for yourself as at this day;

    21And have taken your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders and with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, causing great fear;

  • 1 Chr 17:21
    74%

    21And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, making his name great and to be feared, driving out the nations from before your people whom you made free and took out of Egypt?

  • 1 Sam 10:18
    74%

    18And he said to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I took Israel out of Egypt, and made you free from the hands of the Egyptians and from all the kingdoms which kept you down:

  • Deut 10:15
    74%

    15But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.

  • Deut 4:15
    74%

    15So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:

  • Lev 20:24
    74%

    24But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples.

  • Deut 26:8
    74%

    8And the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand and a stretched-out arm, with works of power and signs and wonders:

  • Deut 6:23
    74%

    23And he took us out from that place, guiding us here to give us this land, as he said in his oath to our fathers.

  • Deut 6:12
    74%

    12Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

  • Deut 8:14
    74%

    14Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;

  • Amos 2:10
    74%

    10And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.

  • Deut 24:18
    73%

    18But keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: for this is why I give you orders to do this.

  • Exod 15:13
    73%

    13In your mercy you went before the people whom you have made yours; guiding them in your strength to your holy place.

  • Num 14:13
    73%

    13And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;

  • Deut 12:9
    73%

    9For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 7:19
    73%

    19The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears.

  • Deut 32:9
    73%

    9For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.

  • Ps 135:4
    73%

    4For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.

  • Deut 29:13
    73%

    13And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 11:5
    73%

    5And what he did for you in the waste land, till you came to this place;

  • Deut 6:21
    73%

    21Then you will say to your son, We were servants under Pharaoh's yoke in Egypt; and the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand:

  • Lev 26:13
    73%

    13I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt so that you might not be servants to them; by me the cords of your yoke were broken and I made you go upright.