Exodus 2:11
The 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.
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- Heb 11:24-26 : 24 By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure. 26 He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.
- Exod 1:11 : 11 So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
- Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Luke 4:18 : 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,
- Acts 7:22-24 : 22 So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds. 23 But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites. 24 When 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 3:7 : 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.
- Exod 5:9 : 9 Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”
- Exod 5:14 : 14 The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked,“Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past– both yesterday and today?”
- Isa 58:6 : 6 No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.
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- Exod 2:12-154 verses84%
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.
- Acts 7:19-246 verses82%
19This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
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 2:9-102 verses78%
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.
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.”
- Acts 7:28-292 verses75%
28You don’t want to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’
29When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
- Heb 11:23-242 verses75%
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 11:3-42 verses74%
3(Now the LORD granted the people favor with the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, respected by Pharaoh’s servants and by the Egyptian people.)
4Moses said,“This is what the LORD has said:‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
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6opened it, and saw the child– a boy, crying!– and she felt compassion for him and said,“This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
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23The 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.
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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.
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28The Authentication of the Word When the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
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17When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.
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20When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,
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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.
- Exod 3:9-113 verses72%
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?”
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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,
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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–
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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.
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8Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel’s sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
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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.”
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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.
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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”).
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19They said,“An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”
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10A Case of Blaspheming the Name Now an Israelite woman’s son whose father was an Egyptian went out among the Israelites, and the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man had a fight in the camp.