Deuteronomy 6:21

6:21 you must say to them, ¹  “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way. ² 

Deuteronomy 26:8

26:8 Therefore the Lord brought us out of Egypt with tremendous strength and power, ³  as well as with great awe-inspiring signs and wonders.

Deuteronomy 9:26

9:26 I prayed to him: ⁴  O, Lord God, ⁵  do not destroy your people, your valued property ⁶  that you have powerfully redeemed, ⁷  whom you brought out of Egypt by your strength. ⁸ 

Deuteronomy 4:34

4:34 Or has God ⁹  ever before tried to deliver ¹⁰  a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, ¹¹  signs, wonders, war, strength, power, ¹²  and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

Deuteronomy 5:15

5:15 Recall that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there by strength and power. ¹³  That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to observe ¹⁴  the Sabbath day.

Deuteronomy 7:8

7:8 Rather it is because of his ¹⁵  love ¹⁶  for you and his faithfulness to the promise ¹⁷  he solemnly vowed ¹⁸  to your ancestors ¹⁹  that the Lord brought you out with great power, ²⁰  redeeming ²¹  you from the place of slavery, from the power ²²  of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

¹ tn Heb “to your son.”

² tn Heb “by a strong hand.” The image is that of a warrior who, with weapon in hand, overcomes his enemies. The Lord is commonly depicted as a divine warrior in the Book of Deuteronomy (cf. 5:15; 7:8; 9:26; 26:8).

³ tn Heb “by a powerful hand and an extended arm.” These are anthropomorphisms designed to convey God’s tremendously great power in rescuing Israel from their Egyptian bondage. They are preserved literally in many English versions (cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

⁵ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

⁶ tn Heb “Lord Lord” (אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה, ’adonay yÿhvih). The phrase is customarily rendered by Jewish tradition as “Lord God” (אֲדֹנָי אֱלֹהִים, ’adonay ’elohim). See also the note on the phrase “Lord God” in Deut 3:24.

⁷ tn Heb “your inheritance”; NLT “your special (very own NRSV) possession.” Israel is compared to landed property that one would inherit from his ancestors and pass on to his descendants.

⁸ tn Heb “you have redeemed in your greatness.”

⁹ tn Heb “by your strong hand.”

⁷ tn The translation assumes the reference is to Israel’s God in which case the point is this: God’s intervention in Israel’s experience is unique in the sense that he has never intervened in such power for any other people on earth. The focus is on the uniqueness of Israel’s experience. Some understand the divine name here in a generic sense, “a god,” or “any god.” In this case God’s incomparability is the focus (cf. v. 35, where this theme is expressed).

⁸ tn Heb “tried to go to take for himself.”

⁹ tn Heb “by testings.” The reference here is the judgments upon Pharaoh in the form of plagues. See Deut 7:19 (cf. v. 18) and 29:3 (cf. v. 2).

¹⁰ tn Heb “by strong hand and by outstretched arm.”

⁹ tn Heb “by a strong hand and an outstretched arm,” the hand and arm symbolizing divine activity and strength. Cf. NLT “with amazing power and mighty deeds.”

¹⁰ tn Or “keep” (so KJV, NRSV).

¹¹ tn Heb “the Lord’s.” See note on “He” in 7:6.

¹² tn For the verb אָהַב (’ahav, “to love”) as a term of choice or election, see note on the word “loved” in Deut 4:37.

¹³ tn Heb “oath.” This is a reference to the promises of the so-called “Abrahamic Covenant” (cf. Gen 15:13-16).

¹⁴ tn Heb “swore on oath.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 12, 13).

¹⁶ tn Heb “by a strong hand” (NAB similar); NLT “with such amazing power.”

¹⁷ sn Redeeming you from the place of slavery. The Hebrew verb translated “redeeming” (from the root פָּדָה, padah) has the idea of redemption by the payment of a ransom. The initial symbol of this was the Passover lamb, offered by Israel to the Lord as ransom in exchange for deliverance from bondage and death (Exod 12:1-14). Later, the firstborn sons of Israel, represented by the Levites, became the ransom (Num 3:11-13). These were all types of the redemption effected by the death of Christ who described his atoning work as “a ransom for many” (Matt 20:28; cf. 1 Pet 1:18).

¹⁸ tn Heb “hand” (so KJV, NRSV), a metaphor for power or domination.