He brought[led] them out Having God's power with him in all these wanderings.

after that he had skewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt The oldest MSS. omit "the land of." Read, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt.

and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years The Jewish traditions make the plagues sent on the Egyptians at the Red Sea more than those which had been sent to them in Egypt. Thus in the Mechilta(ed. Weiss, p. 41) the Egyptians are said to have received tenplagues in Egypt, but fiftyat the Red Sea, because the magicians speak of the afflictions in Egypt (Exodus 8:19) as "the fingerof God," while at the Red Sea it is said (Exodus 14:31) "And Israel saw that great work [Heb. hand which the Lord did upon the Egyptians."

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