Acts 13:17
Good News Translation
The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors and made the people a great nation during the time they lived as foreigners in Egypt. God brought them out of Egypt by his great power,

New Revised Standard Version
The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

Contemporary English Version
The God of Israel chose our ancestors, and he let our people prosper while they were living in Egypt. Then with his mighty power he led them out,

New American Bible
The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and exalted the people during their sojourn in the land of Egypt. With uplifted arm he led them out of it

Douay-Rheims Bible
The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an high arm brought them out from thence:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an high arm brought them out from thence:

God.

Acts 7:2 Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan.

*etc:

Genesis 12:1-3 And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. . . .

Genesis 17:7,8 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. . . .

Deuteronomy 4:37 Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power,

Deuteronomy 7:6-8 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth. . . .

Deuteronomy 9:5 For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 14:2 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.

Nehemiah 9:7,8 Thou O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and broughtest him forth out of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of Abraham. . . .

Psalm 105:6-12,42,43 O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen. . . .

Psalm 135:4 For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself: Israel for his own possession.

Isaiah 41:8,9 But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend: . . .

Isaiah 44:1 And now hear, O Jacob, my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen.

Jeremiah 33:24-26 Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two families which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have despised my people, so that it is no more a nation before them? . . .

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

and exalted.

Acts 7:17 And when the time of the promise drew near, which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt.

Exodus 1:7-9 The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land. . . .

Deuteronomy 10:22 In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.

Psalm 105:23,24 And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham. . . .

and with.

Acts 7:36 He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the desert, forty years.

Exodus 6:1-14:31 And the Lord said to Moses: Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharao: for by a mighty hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he cast them out of his land. . . .

Exodus 15:1-21 Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the Lord, and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea. . . .

Exodus 18:11 Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because they dealt proudly against them.

Deuteronomy 4:20,34 But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron furnaces of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this present day. . . .

Deuteronomy 7:19 The exceeding great plagues, which thy eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched out arm, with which the Lord thy God brought thee out: so will he do to all the people, whom thou fearest.

1 Samuel 4:8 Woe to us: for there was no such great joy yesterday, and the day before: Woe to us. Who shall deliver us from the hand of these high Gods? these are the Gods that struck Egypt with all the plagues in the desert.

Nehemiah 9:9-12 And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt: and thou didst hear their cry by the Red Sea. . . .

Psalm 77:13-20 Thy way, O God, is in the holy place: who is the great God like our God? . . .

Psalm 78:12,13,42-53 Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis. . . .

Psalm 105:26-39 He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen. . . .

Psalm 106:7-11 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea. . . .

Psalm 114:1-8 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people: . . .

Psalm 135:8-10 He slew the firstborn of Egypt from man even unto beast. . . .

Psalm 136:10-15 Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

Isaiah 63:9-14 In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old. . . .

Jeremiah 32:20,21 Who hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even until this day, and in Israel, and amongst men, and hast made thee a name as at this day. . . .

Amos 2:10 It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite.

Micah 6:4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and delivered thee out of the house of slaves: and I sent before thy face Moses, and Aaron, and Mary.

Micah 7:15,16 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt, I will shew him wonders. . . .

Context
In Pisidian Antioch
16Then Paul rising up and with his hand bespeaking silence, said: Ye men of Israel and you that fear God, give ear. 17The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an high arm brought them out from thence: 18And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert:…
Cross References
Exodus 1:7
The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.

Exodus 6:1
And the Lord said to Moses: Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharao: for by a mighty hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he cast them out of his land.

Exodus 6:6
Therefore say to the children of Israel: I am the Lord who will bring you out from the work-prison of the Egyptians, and will deliver you from bondage: and redeem you with a high arm, and great judgments.

Exodus 12:51
And the same day the Lord brought forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.

Exodus 13:14
And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What is this? thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Exodus 13:16
And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a thing hung between thy eyes, for a remembrance: because the Lord hath brought us forth out of Egypt by a strong hand.

Exodus 14:8
And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharao, king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; but they were gone forth in a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 7:6
Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.

Psalm 105:23
And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.

Acts 7:17
And when the time of the promise drew near, which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt.

Acts 13:16
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