Hebrews 11:23

World English Bible (2000)

By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

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  • Exod 1:22 : 22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."
  • Exod 1:16 : 16 and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."
  • Acts 7:20 : 20 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.
  • Exod 2:2-9 : 2 The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank. 4 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him. 5 Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it. 6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children." 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?" 8 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The maiden went and called the child's mother. 9 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it. 10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
  • Ps 118:6 : 6 Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
  • Isa 41:14 : 14 Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you," says Yahweh, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
  • Heb 13:6 : 6 So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
  • Luke 12:4-5 : 4 "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
  • Isa 51:7 : 7 "Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don't fear the reproach of men, neither be dismayed at their insults.
  • Isa 51:12 : 12 "I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;
  • Dan 3:16-18 : 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.
  • Dan 6:10 : 10 When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
  • Isa 8:12-13 : 12 "Don't say, 'A conspiracy!' concerning all about which this people say, 'A conspiracy!' neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized. 13 Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
  • Isa 41:10 : 10 Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
  • Ps 56:4 : 4 In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

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  • Heb 11:24-29
    6 verses
    86%

    24By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

    25choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

    26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

    27By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

    28By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

    29By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.

  • Acts 7:19-23
    5 verses
    80%

    19The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.

    20At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.

    21When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

    22Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

    23But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

  • Exod 2:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

    3When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.

  • Exod 2:9-12
    4 verses
    75%

    9Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it.

    10The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

    11It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

    12He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

  • Exod 1:16-19
    4 verses
    74%

    16and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."

    17But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

    18The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?"

    19The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."

  • Heb 11:22
    73%

    22By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.

  • Acts 7:29
    72%

    29Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

  • Exod 2:15
    72%

    15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

  • Exod 1:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.

    22Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."

  • Exod 11:3
    70%

    3Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

  • Heb 3:5
    70%

    5Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

  • Exod 3:1
    69%

    1Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.

  • Exod 3:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."

    11Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

  • Ps 106:23
    68%

    23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.

  • Exod 3:6
    68%

    6Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.

  • Exod 14:31
    68%

    31Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant Moses.

  • Exod 2:6
    68%

    6She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

  • Num 14:13
    68%

    13Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;

  • Num 17:11
    68%

    11Moses did so. As Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

  • Exod 24:18
    67%

    18Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • Exod 2:23
    67%

    23It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

  • 2 Cor 3:13
    67%

    13and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn't look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.

  • Acts 7:31
    67%

    31When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

  • Deut 11:3
    67%

    3and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;