Acts 7:20
At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father’s house,
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- Heb 11:23 : 23 By 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.
- Exod 2:2-9 : 2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile. 4 His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him. 5 Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river, and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants, took it, 6 opened it, and saw the child– a boy, crying!– and she felt compassion for him and said,“This is one of the Hebrews’ children.” 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter,“Shall I go and get a nursing woman for you from the Hebrews, so that she may nurse the child for you?” 8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Yes, do so.” So the young girl went and got the child’s mother. 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying,“Because I drew him from the water.”
- 1 Sam 16:12 : 12 So Jesse had him brought in. Now he was ruddy, with attractive eyes and a handsome appearance. The LORD said,“Go and anoint him. This is the one!”
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- Acts 7:21-244 verses89%
21 and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
22 So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.
23 But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.
24 When 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.
- Heb 11:23-242 verses80%
23 By 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.
24 By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
- Exod 2:5-117 verses78%
5 Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river, and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants, took it,
6 opened it, and saw the child– a boy, crying!– and she felt compassion for him and said,“This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter,“Shall I go and get a nursing woman for you from the Hebrews, so that she may nurse the child for you?”
8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Yes, do so.” So the young girl went and got the child’s mother.
9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.
10 When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying,“Because I drew him from the water.”
11 The 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.
- Exod 2:2-32 verses78%
2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months.
3 But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.
- Acts 7:17-193 verses77%
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,
18 until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.
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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29 When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
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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.”
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7 Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
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3 (Now the LORD granted the people favor with the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, respected by Pharaoh’s servants and by the Egyptian people.)
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36 This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
- Exod 2:15-173 verses69%
15 When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.
16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.
17 When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.
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1 Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.
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22 When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said,“I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”
- Exod 1:16-183 verses68%
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?”
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31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,
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20 So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.
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15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
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6 But 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.