Acts 7:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Heb 11:23 : 23 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.
  • 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,{"Moses" sounds like the Hebrew for "draw out".} and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
  • 1 Sam 16:12 : 12 He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful face, and goodly to look on. Yahweh said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he.

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  • Acts 7:21-24
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    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 word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, the children of Israel.

    24Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.

  • Heb 11:23-24
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    80%

    23By 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.

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

  • Exod 2:5-11
    7 verses
    78%

    5Pharaoh'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.

    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."

    7Then 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?"

    8Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The maiden went and called the child's mother.

    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,{"Moses" sounds like the Hebrew for "draw out".} 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.

  • Exod 2:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Acts 7:17-19
    3 verses
    77%

    17"But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

    18until there arose a different king, who didn't know Joseph.

    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.

  • Acts 7:29
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    29Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

  • Exod 1:22
    71%

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

  • Exod 7:7
    70%

    7Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

  • 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.

  • Acts 7:36
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    36This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

  • Exod 2:15-17
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    69%

    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.

    16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

    17The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

  • Exod 3:1
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    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 2:22
    68%

    22She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,{"Gershom" sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."} for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

  • Exod 1:16-18
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    68%

    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 men-children alive?"

  • 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,

  • Exod 1:20
    67%

    20God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

  • Num 20:15
    67%

    15how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

  • Acts 7:6
    67%

    6God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.