Acts 7:29

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When Moses heard this, he fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.

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  • Exod 2:14-22 : 14 The man replied, 'Who made you a ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?' Moses was afraid and thought, 'Surely this matter is known.' 15 When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock. 17 Some shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses got up, came to their rescue, and watered their flock. 18 When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked, 'Why have you returned so early today?' 19 They answered, 'An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.' 20 Reuel said to his daughters, 'And where is he? Why did you leave the man? Invite him to have something to eat.' 21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 22 She gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, 'I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.'
  • Exod 4:19-20 : 19 Now the LORD said to Moses in Midian, 'Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are now dead.' 20 So Moses took his wife and his sons, put them on a donkey, and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
  • Exod 18:2-4 : 2 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after she had been sent away, 3 along with her two sons. One was named Gershom, meaning, 'I have been a foreigner in a foreign land,' because Moses had said, 'I was a sojourner in a strange land.' 4 The name of the other son was Eliezer, meaning, 'My God is my help,' for Moses had said, 'The God of my father was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.'

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  • Exod 2:10-17
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    10When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, 'I drew him out of the water.'

    11One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people.

    12Looking this way and that, and seeing no one, Moses struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

    13The next day he went out and saw two Hebrew men fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, 'Why are you striking your companion?'

    14The man replied, 'Who made you a ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?' Moses was afraid and thought, 'Surely this matter is known.'

    15When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, where he sat down by a well.

    16Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.

    17Some shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses got up, came to their rescue, and watered their flock.

  • Exod 2:21-22
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    21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

    22She gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, 'I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.'

  • Acts 7:30-32
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    30After forty years had passed, an angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the wilderness near Mount Sinai.

    31Moses was amazed at what he saw. As he approached to look more closely, he heard the voice of the Lord say,

    32'I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look closely.

  • Acts 7:28
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    28'Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?' the man continued.

  • Acts 7:20-24
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    20At that time, Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God's sight. He was cared for in his father's house for three months.

    21When he was abandoned, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

    22Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.

    23When he was forty years old, it entered his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

    24When Moses saw someone being mistreated, he came to his defense and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.

  • Exod 18:3-4
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    3along with her two sons. One was named Gershom, meaning, 'I have been a foreigner in a foreign land,' because Moses had said, 'I was a sojourner in a strange land.'

    4The name of the other son was Eliezer, meaning, 'My God is my help,' for Moses had said, 'The God of my father was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.'

  • Exod 3:1
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    1Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

  • Acts 7:35-37
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    35This same Moses, whom they had rejected by saying, 'Who made you ruler and judge?'—this is the one God sent as ruler and deliverer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

    36This is the one who led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

    37This is the same Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.'

  • Heb 11:23-24
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    23By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden by his parents for three months, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's order.

    24By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

  • Exod 4:18-20
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    18Then Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, 'Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt to see if they are still alive.' And Jethro said to Moses, 'Go in peace.'

    19Now the LORD said to Moses in Midian, 'Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are now dead.'

    20So Moses took his wife and his sons, put them on a donkey, and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.

  • Exod 7:7
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    7Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.

  • Exod 24:18
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    18Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

  • Num 14:13
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    13But Moses said to the LORD, "The Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.

  • Num 27:15
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    15Moses spoke to the LORD, saying:

  • Acts 7:39
    69%

    39But our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

  • Num 11:30
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    30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

  • Exod 18:1
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    1Jethro, the priest of Midian and Moses’ father-in-law, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and for His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.