Acts 7:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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  • John 18:10-11 : 10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, pulled it out and struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his right ear.(Now the slave’s name was Malchus.) 11 But Jesus said to Peter,“Put your sword back into its sheath! Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?”
  • John 18:25-27 : 25 Peter’s Second and Third Denials Meanwhile Simon Peter was standing in the courtyard warming himself. They said to him,“You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?” Peter denied it:“I am not!” 26 One of the high priest’s slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said,“Did I not see you in the orchard with him?” 27 Then Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.
  • Acts 7:28 : 28 You don’t want to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’

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  • Exod 2:11-15
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    82%

    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.

    13When he went out the next day, there were two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the one who was in the wrong,“Why are you attacking your fellow Hebrew?”

    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.

  • Acts 7:18-23
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    81%

    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,

    21and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

    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.

  • Acts 7:25-29
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    78%

    25He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand.

    26The next day Moses saw two men fighting, and tried to make peace between them, saying,‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’

    27But the man who was unfairly hurting his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying,‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

    28You don’t want to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’

    29When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

  • Acts 7:34
    70%

    34I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.’

  • Lev 24:10
    70%

    10A Case of Blaspheming the Name Now an Israelite woman’s son whose father was an Egyptian went out among the Israelites, and the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man had a fight in the camp.

  • Exod 5:20-21
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    70%

    20When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,

    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!”

  • Heb 11:24
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    24By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

  • Exod 2:19
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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!”

  • Exod 3:7
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    7The LORD said,“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

  • Acts 7:10
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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.

  • Acts 7:36
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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.

  • Exod 3:9
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    9And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.

  • 2 Sam 23:21
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    21He also killed an impressive-looking Egyptian. The Egyptian wielded a spear, while Benaiah attacked him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

  • Deut 26:6
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    6But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.

  • Heb 11:27
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    27By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

  • 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,

  • Exod 18:4
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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”).

  • Exod 32:12
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    12Why should the Egyptians say,‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.

  • Exod 4:24
    67%

    24Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the LORD met Moses and sought to kill him.

  • Josh 24:7
    67%

    7Your fathers cried out for help to the LORD; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, and then drowned them in the sea. You witnessed with your very own eyes what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.

  • Num 35:21
    67%

    21or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.

  • Exod 11:3
    67%

    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.)

  • Num 20:15
    67%

    15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.