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Deuteronomy 4:20

But 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.

KJV

Vos autem tulit Dominus, et eduxit de fornace ferrea Ægypti, ut haberet populum hæreditarium, sicut est in præsenti die.

Vulgate

ὑμᾶς δὲ ἔλαβεν ὁ θεὸς καὶ ἐξήγαγεν ἡμᾶς ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, ἐκ τῆς καμίνου τῆς σιδηρᾶς, ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, εἶναι αὐτῷ λαὸν εὔκληρον ὡς ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ταύτῃ.

LXX

But Jehovah hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

ASV

וְ/אֶתְ/כֶם֙ לָקַ֣ח יְהוָ֔ה וַ/יּוֹצִ֥א אֶתְ/כֶ֛ם מִ/כּ֥וּר הַ/בַּרְזֶ֖ל מִ/מִּצְרָ֑יִם לִ/הְי֥וֹת ל֛/וֹ לְ/עַ֥ם נַחֲלָ֖ה כַּ/יּ֥וֹם הַ/זֶּֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
בַּרְזֶל֙
brzl
noun · 76×
וֹ
v
noun · 221×
זֶּֽה
zh
pronoun · 1173×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
יִּקַּ֣ח
yqch
verb · 963×
כּ֔וּר
kvr
noun · 9×
ם
m
verb · 1071×
מִצְרַ֔יִם
mtsrym
proper_noun · 634×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 8:51 — For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
  • 1Kgs 8:51 — For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
  • 1Pet 2:9 — But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
  • 1Pet 2:9 — But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
  • Acts 7:30 — And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
  • Deut 7:8 — But 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,
  • Deut 9:26 — I 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
  • Deut 9:29 — Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
  • Deut 9:29 — Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
  • Deut 32:9 — For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
  • Eph 1:11 — In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
  • Exod 3:2 — And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
  • Exod 6:7 — And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
  • Exod 19:5 — Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
  • Exod 19:5 — Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
  • Gen 15:14 — And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
  • Isa 30:6 — The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulder
  • Isa 48:10 — Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
  • Isa 63:17 — O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
  • Jer 11:4 — Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall
  • Jer 11:4 — Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall
  • Ps 28:9 — Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
  • Ps 33:12 — Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
  • Ps 74:2 — Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
  • Ps 135:4 — For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
  • Titus 2:14 — Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.