Exodus 2:15

American Standard Version (1901)

Now 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.

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  • Acts 7:29 : 29 And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.
  • Heb 11:27 : 27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
  • Gen 24:11 : 11 And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
  • Gen 29:2 : 2 And he looked, and, behold, a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of sheep lying there by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and the stone upon the well's mouth was great.
  • Exod 4:19 : 19 And Jehovah said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.
  • 1 Kgs 19:1-3 : 1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel send a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time. 3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.
  • 1 Kgs 19:13-14 : 13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? 14 And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
  • Prov 22:3 : 3 A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
  • Jer 26:21-23 : 21 and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt: 22 and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt; 23 and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king, who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
  • Matt 10:23 : 23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone through the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
  • John 4:6 : 6 and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
  • Gen 25:2 : 2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
  • Gen 25:4 : 4 And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
  • Gen 28:6-7 : 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; 7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram:

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  • Exod 2:10-14
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    10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water. [

    11 And 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.

    12 And 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.

    13 And 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?

    14 And 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.

  • Acts 7:28-29
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    28 Wouldest thou kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?

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

  • Exod 2:16-17
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    16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

    17 And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

  • 1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.

  • Exod 4:18-20
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    18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

    19 And Jehovah said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.

    20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

  • 1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt.

  • Acts 7:21-24
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    21 and when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

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

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

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

  • 8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how Jehovah delivered them.

  • 3 And 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.

  • 19 And 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 5:20-21
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    20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:

    21 and 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 11:23-24
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    23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a goodly child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

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

  • 15 And Moses said unto his father-in-law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God:

  • 16 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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

  • 5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

  • 13 And Moses said unto Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;

  • 28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in the day thou seest my face thou shalt die.

  • 3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.

  • 4 and 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.

  • 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

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