Acts 7:24

American Standard Version (1901)

And seeing one [of them] suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian:

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  • John 18:10-11 : 10 Simon Peter therefore having a sword drew it, and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. Now the servant's name was Malchus. 11 Jesus therefore said unto Peter, Put up the sword into the sheath: the cup which the Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
  • John 18:25-27 : 25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore unto him, Art thou also [one] of his disciples? He denied, and said, I am not. 26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him? 27 Peter therefore denied again: and straightway the cock crew.
  • Acts 7:28 : 28 Wouldest thou kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?

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  • Exod 2:11-15
    5 verses
    82%

    11And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

    12And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

    13And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

    14And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.

    15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

  • Acts 7:18-23
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    81%

    18till there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

    19The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.

    20At which season Moses was born, and was exceeding fair; and he was nourished three months in his father's house.

    21and when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

    22And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and works.

    23But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

  • Acts 7:25-29
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    78%

    25and he supposed that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not.

    26And the day following he appeared unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

    27But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

    28Wouldest thou kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?

    29And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.

  • Acts 7:34
    70%

    34I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I am come down to deliver them: and now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

  • Lev 24:10
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    10And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp:

  • Exod 5:20-21
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    70%

    20And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:

    21and they said unto them, Jehovah look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

  • Heb 11:24
    69%

    24By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

  • Exod 2:19
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    19And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.

  • Exod 3:7
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    7And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

  • Acts 7:10
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    10and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

  • Acts 7:36
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    36This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

  • Exod 3:9
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    9And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

  • 2 Sam 23:21
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    21And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

  • Deut 26:6
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    6And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

  • Heb 11:27
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    27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

  • Acts 7:31
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    31And when Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord,

  • Exod 18:4
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    4and the name of the other was Eliezer; for [he said], The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.

  • Exod 32:12
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    12Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

  • Exod 4:24
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    24And it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that Jehovah met him, and sought to kill him.

  • Josh 24:7
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    7And when they cried out unto Jehovah, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days.

  • Num 35:21
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    21or in enmity smote him with his hand, so that he died; he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meeteth him.

  • Exod 11:3
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    3And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

  • Num 20:15
    67%

    15how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers: