Acts 7:36

New American Bible - revised edition

This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the desert for forty years.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:10

You worked signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his servants and the people of his land, Because you knew of their insolence toward them; thus you made for yourself a name even to this day.

Psalm 95:10

Forty years I loathed that generation; I said: “This people’s heart goes astray; they do not know my ways.”

Psalm 95:8

Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day of Massah in the desert.

Exodus 12:41

At the end of four hundred and thirty years, on this very date, all the armies of the Lord left the land of Egypt.

Exodus 14:21

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord drove back the sea with a strong east wind all night long and turned the sea into dry ground. The waters were split,

Exodus 16:35

The Israelites ate the manna for forty years, until they came to settled land; they ate the manna until they came to the borders of Canaan.

Exodus 3:20

So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wondrous deeds I will do in its midst. After that he will let you go.

Exodus 33:1

The Lord spoke to Moses: Go! You and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt are to go up from here to the land about which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: I will give it to your descendants.

John 4:48

Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

Acts 13:18

and for about forty years he put up with them in the desert.

Acts 7:42

Then God turned and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

Deuteronomy 8:4

The clothing did not fall from you in tatters, nor did your feet swell these forty years.

Hebrews 3:8

‘Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion in the day of testing in the desert,

Hebrews 3:9

where your ancestors tested and tried me and saw my works

Hebrews 8:9

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt; for they did not stand by my covenant and I ignored them, says the Lord.