Acts 7:22

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So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.

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  • Isa 19:11 : 11 The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; Pharaoh’s wise advisers give stupid advice. How dare you say to Pharaoh,“I am one of the sages, one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?”
  • Dan 1:4 : 4 young men in whom there was no physical defect and who were handsome, well versed in all kinds of wisdom, well educated and having keen insight, and who were capable of entering the king’s royal service– and to teach them the literature and language of the Babylonians.
  • Luke 24:19 : 19 He said to them,“What things?”“The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied,“a man who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet before God and all the people;
  • Dan 1:17-20 : 17 Now as for these four young men, God endowed them with knowledge and skill in all sorts of literature and wisdom– and Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams. 18 When the time appointed by the king arrived, the overseer of the court officials brought them into Nebuchadnezzar’s presence. 19 When the king spoke with them, he did not find among the entire group anyone like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, or Azariah. So they entered the king’s service. 20 In every matter of wisdom and insight the king asked them about, he found them to be ten times better than any of the magicians and astrologers that were in his entire empire.
  • 1 Kgs 4:29-30 : 29 God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment; the breadth of his understanding was as infinite as the sand on the seashore. 30 Solomon was wiser than all the men of the east and all the sages of Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 9:22 : 22 King Solomon was wealthier and wiser than any of the kings of the earth.

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  • Acts 7:20-21
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    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.

  • Acts 7:23-24
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    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.

  • Exod 11:3
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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.)

  • Exod 2:10-12
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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,“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.

    12He looked this way and that and saw that no one was there, and then he attacked the Egyptian and concealed the body in the sand.

  • Deut 34:11-12
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    11He did all the signs and wonders the LORD had sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, all his servants, and the whole land,

    12and he displayed great power and awesome might in view of all Israel.

  • Acts 7:29
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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.

  • Exod 7:6-7
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    6And Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the LORD commanded them.

    7Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.

  • Exod 2:14-15
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    14The man replied,“Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking,“Surely what I did has become known.”

    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.

  • Heb 11:23-24
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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.

    24By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

  • Num 14:13
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    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

  • Acts 7:31
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    31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

  • Acts 7:36-37
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    36This 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.

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

  • Exod 18:8
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    8Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel’s sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

  • Deut 11:3
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    3They did not see the awesome deeds he performed in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land,

  • Exod 19:7
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    7So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him,

  • Num 12:3
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    3(Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than any man on the face of the earth.)

  • Deut 29:2
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    2The Exodus, Wandering, and Conquest Reviewed Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows:“You have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land.

  • Exod 6:28
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    28The Authentication of the Word When the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

  • Exod 7:11
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    11Then Pharaoh also summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the magicians of Egypt by their secret arts did the same thing.