Exodus 1:9

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He said to his people,“Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are!

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  • Ps 105:24-25 : 24 The LORD made his people very fruitful, and made them more numerous than their enemies. 25 He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants.
  • Jas 3:14-16 : 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth. 15 Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, natural, demonic. 16 For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?
  • Num 22:4-5 : 4 So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian,“Now this mass of people will lick up everything around us, as the bull devours the grass of the field.” Now Balak son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at this time. 5 And he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates River in the land of Amaw, to summon him, saying,“Look, a nation has come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are settling next to me.
  • Prov 14:28 : 28 A king’s glory is the abundance of people, but the lack of subjects is the ruin of a ruler.
  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
  • Eccl 4:4 : 4 Labor Motivated by Envy Then I considered all the skillful work that is done: Surely it is nothing more than competition between one person and another. This also is profitless– like chasing the wind.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

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    7The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.

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    19The midwives said to Pharaoh,“Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women– for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!”

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