Acts 7:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Moses was trained in all the wisdom of Egypt, and was great in his words and works.

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  • Isa 19:11 : 11 The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?
  • Dan 1:4 : 4 Young men who were strong and healthy, good-looking, and trained in all wisdom, having a good education and much knowledge, and able to take positions in the king's house; and to have them trained in the writing and language of the Chaldaeans.
  • Luke 24:19 : 19 And he said to them, What things? And they said, The things to do with Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, great in his acts and his words, before God and all the people:
  • Dan 1:17-20 : 17 Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams. 18 Now at the end of the time fixed by the king for them to go in, the captain of the unsexed servants took them in to Nebuchadnezzar. 19 And the king had talk with them; and among them all there was no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; so they were given places before the king. 20 And in any business needing wisdom and good sense, about which the king put questions to them, he saw that they were ten times better than all the wonder-workers and users of secret arts in all his kingdom.
  • 1 Kgs 4:29-30 : 29 And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside. 30 And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 9:22 : 22 And King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom.

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  • Acts 7:20-21
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    20At which time Moses came to birth, and he was very beautiful; and he was kept for three months in his father's house:

    21And when he was put out, Pharaoh's daughter took him and kept him as her son.

  • Acts 7:23-24
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    23But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.

    24And seeing one of them being attacked, he went to his help and gave the Egyptian a death-blow:

  • Exod 11:3
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    3And the Lord gave the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians. For the man Moses was highly honoured in the land of Egypt, by Pharaoh's servants and the people.

  • Exod 2:10-12
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    10And when the child was older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son, and she gave him the name Moses, Because, she said, I took him out of the water.

    11Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.

    12And turning this way and that, and seeing no one, he put the Egyptian to death, covering his body with sand.

  • Deut 34:11-12
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    11In all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;

    12And in all the acts of power and fear which Moses did before the eyes of all Israel.

  • Acts 7:29
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    29And at these words, Moses went in flight to the land of Midian, and was living there for a time, and had two sons.

  • Exod 7:6-7
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    6And Moses and Aaron did so: as the Lord gave them orders, so they did.

    7And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh.

  • Exod 2:14-15
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    14And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to light.

    15Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.

  • Heb 11:23-24
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    23By faith Moses was kept secretly by his father and mother for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a fair child; and they had no fear of the king's orders.

    24By faith Moses, when he became a man, had no desire to be named the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

  • Num 14:13
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    13And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;

  • Acts 7:31
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    31And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,

  • Acts 7:36-37
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    36This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

    37This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.

  • Exod 18:8
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    8And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation.

  • Deut 11:3
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    3Or his signs and wonders which he did in Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and all his land;

  • Exod 19:7
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    7And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all these words which the Lord had given him orders to say.

  • Num 12:3
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    3Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.

  • Deut 29:2
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    2And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;

  • Exod 6:28
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    28And on the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses in the land of Egypt,

  • Exod 7:11
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    11Then Pharaoh sent for the wise men and the wonder-workers, and they, the wonder-workers of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts.