Exodus 2:6
opened 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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Referenced Verses
- 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Suffering for Doing Good Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.
- 1 Kgs 8:50 : 50 Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them.
- Neh 1:11 : 11 Please, Lord, listen attentively to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who take pleasure in showing respect to your name. Grant your servant success today and show compassion to me in the presence of this man.” Now I was cupbearer for the king.
- Ps 106:46 : 46 He caused all their conquerors to have pity on them.
- Prov 21:1 : 1 The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.
- Acts 7:21 : 21 and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
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- Exod 2:2-54 verses83%
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,
- Exod 2:7-115 verses83%
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.
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.
- Acts 7:20-212 verses78%
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.
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22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”
- Exod 1:15-195 verses74%
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.”
17But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.
18Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them,“Why have you done this and let the boys live?”
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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9And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.
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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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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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2He wept loudly; the Egyptians heard it and Pharaoh’s household heard about it.
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20She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.
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10When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the LORD,
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27The king responded,“Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”
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19Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.
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16Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot, away; for she thought,“I refuse to watch the child die.” So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.
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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.