Acts 7:21
and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
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- 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.”
- Deut 32:26 : 26 The Weakness of Other Gods“I said,‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.
- Heb 11:24 : 24 By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
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18until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.
19This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
20At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father’s house,
- Exod 2:2-1110 verses87%
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.
3But 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.
4His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him.
5Then 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,
6opened it, and saw the child– a boy, crying!– and she felt compassion for him and said,“This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
7Then 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?”
8Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Yes, do so.” So the young girl went and got the child’s mother.
9Pharaoh’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.
10When 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.”
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.
- Acts 7:22-243 verses79%
22So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.
23But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.
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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22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”
- Heb 11:23-242 verses77%
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.
24By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
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29When 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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15When 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.
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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.”
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21you must say to them,“We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.
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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.
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4and the other Eliezer(for Moses had said,“The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).
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19They said,“An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”
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18Then 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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22When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said,“I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”
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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.)