Numbers 20:15

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Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived there for a long time. But the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.

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  • Gen 46:6 : 6 They also took with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. Jacob and all his descendants went to Egypt.
  • Exod 12:40 : 40 Now the time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
  • Deut 26:6 : 6 But the Egyptians mistreated us, oppressed us, and subjected us to harsh labor.
  • Acts 7:15 : 15 So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died.
  • Gen 15:13 : 13 The LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be foreigners in a land not their own, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years."
  • Acts 7:19 : 19 This king dealt deceitfully with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to abandon their infants, so they would not survive.
  • Num 11:5 : 5 We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
  • Num 16:13 : 13 Isn't it enough that you brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also lord it over us?
  • Exod 1:11-14 : 11 So they appointed taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities for Pharaoh—Pithom and Rameses. 12 Yet, the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. 13 The Egyptians forced the Israelites to work as slaves. 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor, the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.
  • Exod 1:16 : 16 "When you help the Hebrew women give birth and observe them on the birthing stools, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live."
  • Exod 1:22 : 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.
  • Exod 5:14 : 14 And Pharaoh's slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, "Why haven’t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?"

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  • Deut 26:5-8
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    83%

    5And you shall declare before the LORD your God, 'My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt, where he lived as a foreigner with only a few people. But there he became a great nation, powerful and numerous.'

    6But the Egyptians mistreated us, oppressed us, and subjected us to harsh labor.

    7Then we cried out to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, and the LORD heard our voice. He saw our suffering, our toil, and our oppression.

    8So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, and with signs and wonders.

  • Num 20:16
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    16When we cried out to the LORD, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now we are here at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.

  • Num 20:14
    81%

    14Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "This is what your brother Israel says: You know about all the hardship that has come upon us.

  • Exod 14:10-12
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    78%

    10As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them! They were terrified and cried out to the LORD.

    11They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

    12Isn't this what we told you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone so we can serve the Egyptians'? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.

  • 1 Sam 12:8
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    8When Jacob went into Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the LORD, and He sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

  • Deut 29:16
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    16You saw their detestable things and idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold that were among them.

  • Exod 5:15
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    15Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: "Why are you treating your servants this way?"

  • Acts 7:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11Then a famine came over the entire land of Egypt and Canaan, bringing great distress, and our ancestors could not find food.

    12When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there for the first time.

  • Acts 7:39
    76%

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

  • Exod 1:12-13
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    76%

    12Yet, the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

    13The Egyptians forced the Israelites to work as slaves.

  • Exod 14:5
    75%

    5When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about the Israelites. They said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and lost their services!”

  • Josh 24:17
    75%

    17For the LORD our God is the one who brought us and our ancestors up out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. He performed great signs before our eyes, protected us along the entire way we traveled, and among all the peoples through whom we journeyed.

  • Deut 6:21-22
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    75%

    21You shall say to your son: 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.'

    22The LORD performed great and distressing signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh, and his whole household.

  • Acts 7:15
    75%

    15So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died.

  • Num 14:3
    75%

    3Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn't it be better for us to return to Egypt?

  • Exod 5:20-21
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    75%

    20When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and Aaron waiting to meet them,

    21They said to them, "May the Lord see and judge you, because you have made us obnoxious in the eyes of Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us."

  • Exod 2:23
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    23During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery rose up to God.

  • Exod 13:14
    74%

    14In the future, when your son asks you, 'What does this mean?' say to him, 'With a mighty hand, the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

  • Exod 6:9
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    9Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh slavery.

  • Neh 9:9
    74%

    9You saw the oppression of our ancestors in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.

  • Exod 3:9
    74%

    9'Now, the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.'

  • Acts 7:19
    74%

    19This king dealt deceitfully with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to abandon their infants, so they would not survive.

  • Exod 12:33
    74%

    33The Egyptians pressured the people to send them out of the land quickly, for they said, 'We are all going to die!'

  • Exod 18:8
    74%

    8Moses told his father-in-law about everything the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for the sake of Israel, all the hardships they had faced along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

  • Ps 106:7
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    7Our ancestors in Egypt did not consider Your miracles; they did not remember the abundance of Your lovingkindness but rebelled at the sea, the Red Sea.

  • Exod 12:40
    74%

    40Now the time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

  • Exod 17:3
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    3But the people were very thirsty for water there, and they complained against Moses, saying, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

  • Exod 5:4
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    4But the king of Egypt said, "Moses and Aaron, why are you distracting the people from their labor? Get back to your work."

  • Josh 24:5
    73%

    5Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt by what I did among them; and afterward, I brought you out.

  • Exod 3:7
    73%

    7The LORD said, 'I have surely seen the affliction of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cry on account of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.'

  • Num 20:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4Why have you brought the LORD's assembly into this wilderness, for us and our livestock to die here?

    5Why did you bring us up from Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink!

  • Lam 5:6
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    6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

  • Deut 1:27
    73%

    27You grumbled in your tents and said, 'Because the LORD hates us, He brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.'

  • Num 16:13
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    13Isn't it enough that you brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also lord it over us?

  • Exod 2:19
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    19They answered, 'An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.'