Deuteronomy 4:20 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁰ But the Lord has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own possession, as at this day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ But the Lord has taken you and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to Him a people of His own possession, as you are this day.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁰ But the LORD took you and brought you out of that iron furnace, out of Egypt, so that you might be his own treasured people, which is what you are right now.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ But the Lord has taken you up, and led you away from the iron furnaces of Egypt, in order to have a people of inheritance, just as it is to the present day.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this present day.

Deuteronomy 4:20 Cross References

1 Kings 8:51

(for they are thy people, and thy heritage, which thou didst bring out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace).

Psalm 135:4

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.

Psalm 28:9

O save thy people, and bless thy heritage; be thou their shepherd, and carry them for ever.

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

Exodus 1:13

So they made the people of Israel serve with rigor,

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.

Exodus 34:9

And he said, “If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us, although it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance.”

Exodus 6:7

and I will take you for my people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Isaiah 30:6

An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and the flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.

Isaiah 48:10

Behold, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.

Jeremiah 11:4

which I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God,

Daniel 3:26

Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the burning fiery furnace and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire.

Ephesians 1:11

In him, according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will,

Ephesians 1:18

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:18

and the Lord has declared this day concerning you that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,

Deuteronomy 32:9

For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.

Deuteronomy 7:6

“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 9:26

And I prayed to the Lord, ‘O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thy heritage, whom thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 9:29

For they are thy people and thy heritage, whom thou didst bring out by thy great power and by thy outstretched arm.’

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.