Hebrews 11:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

By 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 1:22 : 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”
  • Exod 1:16 : 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.”
  • Acts 7:20 : 20 At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father’s house,
  • Exod 2:2-9 : 2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months. 3 But 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. 4 His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him. 5 Then 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, 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.” 7 Then 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?” 8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Yes, do so.” So the young girl went and got the child’s mother. 9 Pharaoh’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. 10 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.”
  • Ps 118:6 : 6 The LORD is on my side, I am not afraid! What can people do to me?
  • Isa 41:14 : 14 Don’t be afraid, despised insignificant Jacob, men of Israel. I am helping you,” says the LORD, your protector, the Holy One of Israel.
  • Heb 13:6 : 6 So we can say with confidence,“The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid. What can people do to me?”
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
  • Luke 12:4-5 : 4 “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after the killing, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!
  • Isa 51:7 : 7 Listen to me, you who know what is right, you people who are aware of my law! Don’t be afraid of the insults of men; don’t be discouraged because of their abuse!
  • Isa 51:12 : 12 “I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?
  • Dan 3:16-18 : 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to King Nebuchadnezzar,“We do not need to give you a reply concerning this. 17 If our God whom we are serving exists, he is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and he will rescue us, O king, from your power as well. 18 But if he does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we don’t serve your gods, and we will not pay homage to the golden statue that you have erected.”
  • Dan 6:10 : 10 When Daniel realized that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. Three times daily he was kneeling and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.
  • Isa 8:12-13 : 12 “Do not say,‘Conspiracy,’ every time these people say the word. Don’t be afraid of what scares them; don’t be terrified. 13 You must recognize the authority of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. He is the one you must respect; he is the one you must fear.
  • Isa 41:10 : 10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you! Don’t be frightened, for I am your God! I strengthen you– yes, I help you– yes, I uphold you with my saving right hand!
  • Ps 56:4 : 4 In God– I boast in his promise– in God I trust, I am not afraid. What can mere men do to me?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 11:24-29
    6 verses
    86%

    24By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

    25choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

    26He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.

    27By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

    28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

    29By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up.

  • Acts 7:19-23
    5 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Exod 2:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Exod 2:9-12
    4 verses
    75%

    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.

    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.

  • Exod 1:16-19
    4 verses
    74%

    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!”

  • Heb 11:22
    73%

    22By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.

  • Acts 7:29
    72%

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

  • Exod 2:15
    72%

    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.

  • Exod 1:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them.

    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 11:3
    70%

    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.)

  • Heb 3:5
    70%

    5Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

  • Exod 3:1
    69%

    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.

  • Exod 3:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    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?”

  • Ps 106:23
    68%

    23He threatened to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger.

  • Exod 3:6
    68%

    6He added,“I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

  • Exod 14:31
    68%

    31When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, they feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.

  • Exod 2:6
    68%

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

  • Num 14:13
    68%

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

  • Num 17:11
    68%

    11So Moses did as the LORD commanded him– this is what he did.

  • Exod 24:18
    67%

    18Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • Exod 2:23
    67%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 3:13
    67%

    13and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective.

  • Acts 7:31
    67%

    31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

  • Deut 11:3
    67%

    3They did not see the awesome deeds he performed in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land,