Exodus 4:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The LORD said to Moses in Midian,“Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 2:15 : 15 When 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.
  • Exod 2:23 : 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.
  • Matt 2:20 : 20 saying,“Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”

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    20Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

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    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.”

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    24Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the LORD met Moses and sought to kill him.

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    33The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying,“We are all dead!”

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