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Deuteronomy 4:20-22
New Catholic Bible
Deuteronomy 4:20-22
New Catholic Bible
20 But as for you, the Lord has chosen you and taken you out from the iron furnace,[a] out of Egypt, to be a people who are his own possession, as you are today.
21 The Lord was angry with me because of you and he swore that I would not cross over the Jordan nor enter the fertile land that the Lord, your God, has given to you as an inheritance. 22 I must die in this land; I will not cross over the Jordan. But you will cross over and take possession of this fertile land.
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- Deuteronomy 4:20 Iron furnace: referring to Egypt by this term implies the spiritual cleansing “by fire” that the Israelites encountered there. Also used in 1 Ki 8:51 and Jer 11:4.