Acts 7:36

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
It's a long story, but God did many miraculous things through Moses as he led all his people out of Egypt by way of the Red Sea and the barren wilderness.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

Legacy Standard Bible
This man led them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

Bible in Basic English
This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

Darby Translation
*He* led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

New King James Version
He brought them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Christian Standard Bible®
This man led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness 40 years.

World English Bible
This man led them forth, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
He brought them out, doing wonders and signs, in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Weymouth's New Testament
This was he who brought them out, after performing marvels and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the Desert for forty years.

King James Version (1611)
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signes in the land of Egypt, and in the red Sea, and in the wildernesse fortie yeeres.

Literal Translation
This one led them out, having worked wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea, and forty years in the wilderness.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The same broughte them out, and dyd wonders and tokens in Egipte, and in the reed see, and in ye wyldernesse fourtye yeares.

Mace New Testament (1729)
he it was, who delivered them by doing prodigies and miracles in the land of Egypt, in the red sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Amplified Bible
"This man led them out [of Egypt] after performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

American Standard Version
This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Revised Standard Version
He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And the same brought them out shewynge wonders and signes in Egypte and in the reed see and in the wyldernes .xl. yeares.

Update Bible Version
This man led them forth, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Webster's Bible Translation
He brought them out, after he had showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Young's Literal Translation
this one did bring them forth, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years;

New Century Version
So Moses led the people out of Egypt. He worked miracles and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and then in the desert for forty years.

New English Translation
This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Contemporary English Version
In Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the desert, Moses rescued the people by working miracles and wonders for forty years.

Complete Jewish Bible
This man led them out, performing miracles and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

English Standard Version
This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Hee brought them out, doing wonders, and miracles in the land of Egypt, and in the red sea, and in the wildernes fourtie yeeres.

George Lamsa Translation
It was he who brought them out after he had performed miracles, wonders, and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

Hebrew Names Version
This man led them forth, having worked wonders and signs in Mitzrayim, in the Sea of Suf, and in the wilderness forty years.

International Standard Version
It was he who led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.Exodus 7:25; 12:41; 33:1; Psalm 105:27;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
This brought them out, when he had wrought signs and wonders and mighty deeds in the land of Mitsreen, and at the Sea of Suph, and in the desert forty years.

Murdock Translation
He it was that brought them out, working signs and wonders and prodigies in the land of Egypt, and at the sea of rushes, and in the desert, forty years.

New Living Translation
And by means of many wonders and miraculous signs, he led them out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, and through the wilderness for forty years.

New Life Bible
This man led them. He did powerful works in Egypt and at the Red Sea. For forty years he led them in the desert.

English Revised Version
This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

New Revised Standard
He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The same, led them forth, doing wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the desert, forty years:

Douay-Rheims Bible
He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the desert, forty years.

King James Version
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He brought them out, shewyng wonders and signes in Egypt, & in the read sea, & in the wyldernesse fourtie yeres.

Easy-to-Read Version
So Moses led the people out of Egypt. He worked wonders and miraculous signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and then in the desert for 40 years.

New American Standard Bible
"This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Good News Translation
He led the people out of Egypt, performing miracles and wonders in Egypt and at the Red Sea and for forty years in the desert.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This Moises ledde hem out, and dide wondris and signes in the loond of Egipt, and in the reed see, and in desert fourti yeeris.

Contextual Overview

³⁰After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai. ³¹When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight. As he approached to look more closely, the voice of the Lord came to him: ³²'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look. ³³Then the Lord said to him, 'Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. ³⁴I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.' ³⁵This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, 'Who made you ruler and judge?' is the one God sent to be their ruler and redeemer, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. ³⁶He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.³⁷This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers.' ³⁸He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us. ³⁹But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

brought: Exodus 12:41, Exodus 33:1

after: Exodus 7:1 - Exodus 14:31, Deuteronomy 4:33-37, Deuteronomy 6:21, Deuteronomy 6:22, Nehemiah 9:10, Psalms 78:12, Psalms 78:13, Psalms 78:42-51, Psalms 105:27-36, Psalms 106:8-11, Psalms 135:8-12, Psalms 136:9-15

in the Red: Exodus 14:21, Exodus 14:27-29

and in the wilderness: Exodus 15:23-25, Exodus 16:1 - Exodus 17:16, Exodus 19:1 - Exodus 20:26, Numbers 9:15-23, Numbers 11:1-35, Numbers 14:1-45, Numbers 16:1 - Numbers 17:13, Numbers 20:1 - Numbers 21:35, Deuteronomy 2:25-37, Deuteronomy 8:4, Nehemiah 9:12-15, Nehemiah 9:18-22, Psalms 78:14-33, Psalms 105:39-45, Psalms 106:17, Psalms 106:18, Psalms 135:10-12, Psalms 136:16-21

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:10 - General Exodus 3:20 - smite Exodus 6:26 - Bring Exodus 7:3 - multiply Exodus 18:1 - God Deuteronomy 34:7 - an hundred Joshua 24:6 - Egyptians Psalms 77:20 - General Psalms 105:43 - And he Psalms 135:9 - sent tokens Psalms 136:12 - General Jeremiah 32:20 - hast set Micah 6:4 - I brought Acts 13:17 - and with Acts 13:18 - about Hebrews 3:9 - forty

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He brought them out,.... Of Egypt, and delivered them from all their oppressions in it:

after that he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt; by turning his rod into a serpent, and by his rod swallowing up the rods of the Egyptians, and by the ten plagues, which were inflicted on Pharaoh, and his people, for not letting the children of Israel go:

and in the Red sea; by dividing the waters of it, so that the people of Israel went through it as on dry ground, which Pharaoh and his army attempting to do, were drowned. This sea is called the Red sea, not from the natural colour of the water, which is the same with that of other seas; nor from the appearance of it through the rays of the sun upon it, or the shade of the red mountains near it; but from Erythrus, to whom it formerly belonged, and whose name signifies red; and is no other than Esau, whose name was Edom, which signifies the same; it lay near his country: it is called in the Hebrew tongue the sea of Suph, from the weeds that grew in it; and so it is in the Syriac version here:

and in the wilderness forty years; where wonders were wrought for the people in providing food for them, and in preserving them from their enemies, when at last they were brought out of it into Canaan's land, by Joshua. This exactly agrees with what has been before observed on Acts 7:23 from the Jewish writings, that Moses was forty years in Pharaoh's court, forty years in Midian, and forty years in the wilderness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wonders and signs - Miracles, and remarkable interpositions of God. See the notes on Acts 2:22.

In the land of Egypt - By the ten plagues. Exo. 4–12.

In the Red sea - Dividing it, and conducting the Israelites in safety, and overthrowing the Egyptians, Exodus 14:0.

In the wilderness - During their forty years’ journey to the promised land. The wonders or miracles were, providing them with manna daily; with flesh in a miraculous manner; with water from the rock, etc., Exodus 16:0; Exodus 17:0; etc.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 36. He brought them out, after that he had showed wonders, &c.] Thus the very person whom they had rejected, and, in effect, delivered up into the hands of Pharaoh that he might be slain, was the person alone by whom they were redeemed from their Egyptian bondage. And does not St. Stephen plainly say by this, that the very person, Jesus Christ, whom they had rejected and delivered up into the hands of Pilate to be crucified, was the person alone by whom they could be delivered out of their spiritual bondage, and made partakers of the inheritance among the saints in light? No doubt they felt that this was the drift of his speech.