Amos 2:10
Good News Translation
I brought you out of Egypt, led you through the desert for forty years, and gave you the land of the Amorites to be your own.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
I had rescued you from Egypt, and for forty years I had led you through the desert. Then I gave you the land of the Amorites.

New American Bible
It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and who led you through the desert for forty years, to occupy the land of the Amorites;

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

I bought.

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

Nehemiah 9:8-12 And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just. . . .

Psalm 105:42,43 Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham. . . .

Psalm 136:10,11 Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

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. . . .

Ezekiel 20:10 Therefore I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and brought them into the desert.

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.

and led.

Numbers 14:34 According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: a year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:

Deuteronomy 2:7 The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands: the Lord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast passed through this great wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast wanted nothing.

Deuteronomy 8:2-4 And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were known in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no. . . .

Nehemiah 9:21 Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was wanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not worn.

Psalm 95:10 Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

Acts 7:42 And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

Acts 13:18 And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert:

to possess.

Numbers 14:31-35 But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised. . . .

Deuteronomy 1:20,21,39 I said to you: You are come to the mountain of the Amorrhite, which the Lord our God will give to us. . . .

Context
Judgment on Moab, Judah, and Israel
9Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath. 10It 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.11And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not so, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord?…
Cross References
Exodus 3:8
And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.

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 20:2
I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Numbers 21:25
So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt in the cities of the Amorrhite, to wit, in Hesebon, and in the villages thereof.

Deuteronomy 2:7
The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands: the Lord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast passed through this great wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast wanted nothing.

Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were known in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.

Joshua 13:4
And on the south side are the Hevites, all the land of Chanaan, and Maara of the Sidonians as far as Apheca, and the borders of the Amorrhite,

Amos 3:1
Hear the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O ye children of Israel: concerning the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:

Amos 9:7
He that buildeth his ascension in heaven, and hath founded his bundle upon the earth: who calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth, the Lord is his name.

Amos 2:9
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