Acts 7:29

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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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  • Exod 2:14-22 : 14 The 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.” 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. 18 So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked,“Why have you come home so early today?” 19 They said,“An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!” 20 He said to his daughters,“So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us.” 21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 22 When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said,“I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”
  • Exod 4:19-20 : 19 The LORD said to Moses in Midian,“Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” 20 Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
  • Exod 18:2-4 : 2 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back, 3 and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom(for Moses had said,“I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”), 4 and 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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  • Exod 2:10-17
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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.

    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.

    16Now 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.

    17When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.

  • Exod 2:21-22
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    21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

    22When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said,“I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”

  • Acts 7:30-32
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    30“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

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

    32‘I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely.

  • Acts 7:28
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    28You don’t want to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’

  • Acts 7:20-24
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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.

    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.

  • Exod 18:3-4
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    3and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom(for Moses had said,“I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”),

    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 3:1
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    1Now 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.

  • Acts 7:35-37
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    35This same Moses they had rejected, saying,‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

    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.’

  • 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,

  • Exod 4:18-20
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    18The Return of Moses So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him,“Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses,“Go in peace.”

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

    20Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

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

  • Exod 24:18
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    18Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • Num 14:13
    69%

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

  • Num 27:15
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    15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:

  • Acts 7:39
    69%

    39Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

  • Num 11:30
    69%

    30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

  • Exod 18:1
    69%

    1The Advice of Jethro Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.