Numbers 20:15

World English Bible (2000)

how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

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  • Gen 46:6 : 6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him,
  • Exod 12:40 : 40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
  • Deut 26:6 : 6 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:
  • Acts 7:15 : 15 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,
  • Gen 15:13 : 13 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
  • Acts 7:19 : 19 The 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.
  • Num 11:5 : 5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
  • Num 16:13 : 13 is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?
  • Exod 1:11-14 : 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
  • 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."
  • 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 5:14 : 14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"

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  • Deut 26:5-8
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    83%

    5You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, "A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

    6The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:

    7and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;

    8and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders;

  • Num 20:16
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    16and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.

  • Num 20:14
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    14Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us:

  • Exod 14:10-12
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    10When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

    11They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

    12Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."

  • 1 Sam 12:8
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    8"When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.

  • Deut 29:16
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    16(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;

  • Exod 5:15
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    15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?

  • Acts 7:11-12
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    76%

    11Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

    12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

  • Acts 7:39
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    39to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • Exod 1:12-13
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    12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

    13The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

  • Exod 14:5
    75%

    5It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

  • Josh 24:17
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    17for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed.

  • Deut 6:21-22
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    75%

    21then you shall tell your son, "We were Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

    22and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;

  • Acts 7:15
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    15Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

  • Num 14:3
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    3Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"

  • Exod 5:20-21
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    20They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:

    21and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

  • Exod 2:23
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    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.

  • Exod 13:14
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    14It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;

  • Exod 6:9
    74%

    9Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

  • Neh 9:9
    74%

    9"You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

  • Exod 3:9
    74%

    9Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

  • Acts 7:19
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    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.

  • Exod 12:33
    74%

    33The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."

  • Exod 18:8
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    8Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.

  • Ps 106:7
    74%

    7Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

  • Exod 12:40
    74%

    40Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

  • Exod 17:3
    74%

    3The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

  • Exod 5:4
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    4The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"

  • Josh 24:5
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    5"'I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in its midst: and afterward I brought you out.

  • Exod 3:7
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    7Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

  • Num 20:4-5
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    4Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

    5Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink."

  • Lam 5:6
    73%

    6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

  • Deut 1:27
    73%

    27and you murmured in your tents, and said, "Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

  • Num 16:13
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    13is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

  • Exod 2:19
    73%

    19They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."