Deuteronomy 4:20
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But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageEgypt, the land of Israel’s bondage, is called an “iron furnace,” emphasizing the severity of Israel’s oppression before the Lord redeemed them. The other places belong to the wider Transjordan and promised-land setting of Moses’
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Deuteronomy 4:20 mentions Arabah, Aroer, Baal-peor, Bashan, Egypt, Gilead, Golan, Jordan, Mount Hermon, Mount Horeb, Peor, Ramoth, Salt Sea and Valley of the Arnon.
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