Acts 7:19
This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
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- Exod 1:9-9 : 9 He said to his people,“Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are! 10 Come, let’s deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country.” 11 So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites, 13 and they made the Israelites serve rigorously. 14 They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous. 15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16 “When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.” 17 But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live. 18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them,“Why have you done this and let the boys live?” 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh,“Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women– for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!” 20 So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them. 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”
- Ps 105:25 : 25 He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants.
- Ps 129:1-3 : 1 A song of ascents.“Since my youth they have often attacked me,” let Israel say. 2 “Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not defeated me. 3 The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.
- Rev 12:4-5 : 4 Now the dragon’s tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 So the woman gave birth to a son, a male child, who is going to rule over all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was suddenly caught up to God and to his throne,
- Ps 83:4-5 : 4 They say,“Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.” 5 Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.
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- Acts 7:17-182 verses79%
17“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,
18until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.
- Acts 7:20-212 verses77%
20At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father’s house,
21and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
- Exod 1:8-103 verses75%
8Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power over Egypt.
9He said to his people,“Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are!
10Come, let’s deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country.”
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6But God spoke as follows:‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.
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6But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.
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15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
- Acts 7:9-124 verses73%
9The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,
10and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
11Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.
12So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.
- Exod 1:16-205 verses73%
16“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”
17But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.
18Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them,“Why have you done this and let the boys live?”
19The midwives said to Pharaoh,“Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women– for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!”
20So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.
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22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”
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25He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants.
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21and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”
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39Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,
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23By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.
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20Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”
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11The Presumption of the Deliverer In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.
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24When he saw one of them being hurt unfairly, Moses came to his defense and avenged the person who was mistreated by striking down the Egyptian.
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7Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying,‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”
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2The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months.
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18Now Joseph’s brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
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27Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed.
- Exod 1:12-132 verses69%
12But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,
13and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.
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7Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.