Deuteronomy 4:20

But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of his own inheritance, as you are today.

Unlocked Literal Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

19You shall not lift your eyes up to the heavens and look at the sun, the moon, or the stars—all the host of the heavens—and be drawn away to worship them and adore them—those things of which Yahweh your God has given a share all the peoples under the whole sky.

21Yahweh was angry with me because of you; he swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go into that good land, the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance.

Read all of Deuteronomy 4

Cross References

Exodus 19:5Now then, if you obediently listen to my voice and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.

Deuteronomy 9:29Yet they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out by your great strength and by the display of your power.'

1 Kings 8:51They are your people whom you have chosen, whom you rescued out of Egypt as if from the middle of a furnace where iron is forged.

Psalms 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, 1 the people whom he has chosen as his own inheritance. 1

Isaiah 63:17Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts, so we do not obey you? 1 Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. 1

Ephesians 1:18I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, that you may know the hope to which he has called you and the riches of his glorious inheritance among all God's holy people.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:2-41

Exhortations and Arguments. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Deuteronomy 4:20