Acts 7:28

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

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  • Exod 2:11-15
    5 verses
    84%

    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.

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

  • 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 5:20-22
    3 verses
    74%

    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!”

    22The Assurance of Deliverance Moses returned to the LORD, and said,“Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?

  • 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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    11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

    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.

  • 15But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”

  • Exod 17:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

    4Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”

  • John 7:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”

    20The crowd answered,“You’re possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?”

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    11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

    12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”

  • 19The LORD said to Moses in Midian,“Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

  • 28Pharaoh said to him,“Go from me! Watch out for yourself! Do not appear before me again, for when you see my face you will die!”

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

  • 26But Moses said,“That would not be the right thing to do, for the sacrifices we make to the LORD our God would be an abomination to the Egyptians. If we make sacrifices that are an abomination to the Egyptians right before their eyes, will they not stone us?

  • 41But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”

  • 13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?

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

  • 10You must stone him to death because he tried to entice you away from the LORD your God, who delivered you from the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.

  • 13Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 15If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,

  • 15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:

  • 17You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.

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

  • 4The king of Egypt said to them,“Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”

  • 37Rules for Tassels The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • 26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • 11And Moses said to the LORD,“Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?