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Amos 2:10

And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.

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ASV

Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

KJV

Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְאָנֹכִ֛יve.'a.no.Khiand IH595 →
הֶעֱלֵ֥יתִיhe.'e.Lei.tiI brought upH5927 →
אֶתְכֶ֖ם'et.Khem<obj.> youH853 →
מֵאֶ֣רֶץme.'E.retzfrom [the] land ofH776 →
מִצְרָ֑יִםmitz.Ra.yimEgyptH4714 →
וָאוֹלֵ֨ךְva.'o.Lekhand I ledH1980 →
אֶתְכֶ֤ם'et.Khem<obj.> youH853 →
בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ba.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057 →
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים'ar.ba.'ImfortyH705 →
שָׁנָ֔הsha.Nahyear[s]H8141 →
לָרֶ֖שֶׁתla.Re.shetto take possession ofH3423 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
אֶ֥רֶץ'E.retz[the] land ofH776 →
הָאֱמֹרִֽי׃ha.'e.mo.Rithe Amorite[s]H567 →

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Deuteronomy 2:7Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.Exodus 12:51And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.Acts 7:42But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?Amos 3:1Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:Exodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.Micah 6:4For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.Acts 13:18He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.Amos 9:7“Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.Ezekiel 20:10So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.Psalms 95:10For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”Nehemiah 9:21For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.Psalms 136:10–11He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever.Exodus 20:2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.Deuteronomy 1:39And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.Psalms 105:42–43For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.Deuteronomy 1:20–21I said: “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.Nehemiah 9:8–12You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

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About Amos

The Prophet Amos — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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