Acts 7:34

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I 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.’

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  • Exod 3:7-9 : 7 The 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. 8 I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 9 And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them. 10 So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”
  • Exod 3:14 : 14 God said to Moses,“I AM that I AM.” And he said,“You must say this to the Israelites,‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
  • Exod 4:31 : 31 and the people believed. When they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.
  • Exod 6:5-6 : 5 I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Therefore, tell the Israelites,‘I am the LORD. I will bring you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians, I will rescue you from the hard labor they impose, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
  • Num 11:17 : 17 Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take part of the Spirit that is on you, and will put it on them, and they will bear some of the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it all by yourself.
  • Judg 2:18 : 18 When the LORD raised up leaders for them, the LORD was with each leader and delivered the people from their enemies while the leader remained alive. The LORD felt sorry for them when they cried out in agony because of what their harsh oppressors did to them.
  • Judg 10:15-16 : 15 But the Israelites said to the LORD,“We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!” 16 They threw away the foreign gods they owned and worshiped the LORD. Finally the LORD grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much.
  • Neh 9:9 : 9 “You saw the affliction of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their cry at the Red Sea.
  • Ps 105:26 : 26 He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
  • Ps 106:44 : 44 Yet he took notice of their distress, when he heard their cry for help.
  • Ps 144:5 : 5 O LORD, make the sky sink and come down! Touch the mountains and make them smolder!
  • Isa 63:8-9 : 8 He said,“Certainly they will be my people, children who are not disloyal.” He became their deliverer. 9 Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. The messenger sent from his very presence delivered them. In his love and mercy he protected them; he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times.
  • Isa 64:1 : 1 (63:19b) If only you would tear apart the sky and come down! The mountains would tremble before you!
  • Hos 12:13 : 13 The LORD brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet, and due to a prophet Israel was preserved alive.
  • Mic 6:4 : 4 In fact, I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I delivered you from that place of slavery. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you.
  • John 3:13 : 13 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven– the Son of Man.
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
  • Gen 11:5 : 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”
  • Gen 18:21 : 21 that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”
  • Exod 2:23-25 : 23 The Call of the Deliverer During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning, God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob, 25 God saw the Israelites, and God understood.

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  • Exod 3:7-12
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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.

    8I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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

    10So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

    11Moses said to God,“Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

    12He replied,“Surely I will be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you bring the people out of Egypt, you and they will serve God at this mountain.”

  • Exod 6:5-7
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    5I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

    6Therefore, tell the Israelites,‘I am the LORD. I will bring you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians, I will rescue you from the hard labor they impose, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

    7I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians.

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    16Tell him,‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say,“Release my people, that they may serve me in the wilderness!” But until now you have not listened.

  • Acts 7:35-36
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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.

  • Acts 7:31-33
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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,

    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.

    33But the Lord said to him,‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

  • Exod 3:16-17
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    16“Go and bring together the elders of Israel and tell them,‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, appeared to me– the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob– saying,“I have attended carefully to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt,

    17and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

  • Exod 32:9
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    9Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

  • Exod 7:4-5
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    4Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

    5Then the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I extend my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.

  • 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–

  • Exod 3:4
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    4When the LORD saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said,“Moses, Moses!” And Moses said,“Here I am.”

  • Acts 7:7
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    7But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ said God,‘and after these things they will come out of there and worship me in this place.’

  • Josh 24:5
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    4In fact, I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I delivered you from that place of slavery. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you.

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    1So the LORD said to Moses,“See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

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  • 1 Sam 12:8
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    8When Jacob entered Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the LORD. The LORD sent Moses and Aaron, and they led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

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  • Exod 33:12
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  • Mic 7:15
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    15“As in the days when you departed from the land of Egypt, I will show you miraculous deeds.”

  • Exod 8:1
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  • Acts 7:24
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    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 6:13
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    13The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge for the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 11:4
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  • Exod 18:8
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  • Exod 5:22
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    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?

  • Num 20:15
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    15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

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    7The LORD spoke to Moses:“Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.

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    14God said to Moses,“I AM that I AM.” And he said,“You must say this to the Israelites,‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

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