Exodus 2:10

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When 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.”

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  • Gal 4:5 : 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.
  • Heb 11:24 : 24 By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
  • Gen 4:25 : 25 And Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying,“God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him.”
  • Gen 16:11 : 11 Then the LORD’s angel said to her,“You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your painful groans.
  • Gen 48:5 : 5 “Now, as for your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, they will be mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.
  • 1 Sam 1:20 : 20 Then Hannah became pregnant. Hannah Dedicates Samuel to the LordIn the course of time she gave birth to a son. And she named him Samuel, thinking,“I asked the LORD for him.”
  • Matt 1:21 : 21 She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
  • Acts 7:21-22 : 21 and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. 22 So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.

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  • Exod 2:2-9
    8 verses
    87%

    2The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months.

    3But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.

    4His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him.

    5Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river, and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants, took it,

    6opened it, and saw the child– a boy, crying!– and she felt compassion for him and said,“This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

    7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter,“Shall I go and get a nursing woman for you from the Hebrews, so that she may nurse the child for you?”

    8Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Yes, do so.” So the young girl went and got the child’s mother.

    9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

  • Acts 7:20-22
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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.

  • 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.

  • 22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”

  • 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,

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

  • Exod 2:15-17
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    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.

  • 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”).

  • 19They said,“An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”

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

  • 18Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them,“Why have you done this and let the boys live?”

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

  • 1Reversal of the Exodus: Return to Egypt and Exile in Assyria When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.

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

  • Exod 1:15-16
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    69%

    15The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

    16“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”

  • 21you must say to them,“We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.