Stephen's Speech
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And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"
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And Stephen said: j "Brothers and fathers, hear me. k The God l of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, m before he lived in Haran,
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and said to him, n 'Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.'
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m Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And o after his father died, p God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.
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Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised q to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, r though he had no child.
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And God spoke to this effect - that s his offspring would t be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them u four hundred years.
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'But v I will judge the nation that they serve,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out w and worship me in this place.'
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And x he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And y so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and z circumcised him on the eighth day, and a Isaac became the father of Jacob, and b Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
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"And the patriarchs, c jealous of Joseph, d sold him into Egypt; but e God was with him
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and rescued him out of all his afflictions and f gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, g who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
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Now h there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.
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i But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.
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And j on the second visit k Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and l Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.
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And m Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, n seventy-five persons in all.
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And o Jacob went down into Egypt, and p he died, he q and our fathers,
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and r they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that s Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
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"But t as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, u the people increased and multiplied in Egypt
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until there arose over Egypt another king v who did not know Joseph.
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w He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, x so that they would not be kept alive.
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y At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God's sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house,
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and z when he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
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And Moses a was instructed in b all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was c mighty in his words and deeds.
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"When he was forty years old, it came into his heart d to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
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And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian.
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He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand.
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e And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, 'Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?'
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But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, f 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
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Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
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At this retort g Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, h where he became the father of two sons.
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"Now when forty years had passed, i an angel appeared to him j in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
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When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and as he drew near to look, there came the voice of the Lord:
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k 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.
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Then the Lord said to him, l 'Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
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m I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and n have heard their groaning, and o I have come down to deliver them. p And now come, I will send you to Egypt.'
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"This Moses, whom they rejected, q saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' - this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer r by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
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s This man led them out, performing t wonders and signs u in Egypt and v at the Red Sea and w in the wilderness for x forty years.
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This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you y a prophet like me from your brothers.'
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This is the one z who was in the congregation in the wilderness with a the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. b He received c living d oracles to give to us.
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Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and e in their hearts they turned to Egypt,
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saying to Aaron, f 'Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'
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And g they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and h were rejoicing in i the works of their hands.
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But j God turned away and k gave them over to worship l the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:
m "'Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices,
n during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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You took up the tent of o Moloch
and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship;
and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.'
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"Our fathers had p the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses q directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen.
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Our fathers in turn r brought it in with Joshua when they s dispossessed the nations t that God drove out before our fathers. So it was u until the days of David,
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v who found favor in the sight of God and w asked to find a dwelling place for x the God of Jacob.
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But it was y Solomon who built a house for him.
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z Yet the Most High does not dwell a in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,
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b "'Heaven is my throne,
c and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord,
or what is the place of my rest?
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Did not my hand make all these things?'
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d "You stiff-necked people, e uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. f As your fathers did, so do you.
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g Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of h the Righteous One, i whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
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you who received the law j as delivered by angels and k did not keep it."
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Acts 22:1
"Brothers and fathers, hear the defense that I now make before you."
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Genesis 15:7
And he said to him, "I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.
Joshua 24:3
Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.
Nehemiah 9:7
You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
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Psalms 29:3
The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters.
1 Corinthians 2:8
None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
James 2:1
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
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Genesis 11:31
Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
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Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
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Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
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Acts 7:2
And Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.
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Genesis 11:32
The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.
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Genesis 12:4 - 5
So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
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Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To y...
Genesis 13:15
For all the land that you see I will give to yo...
Genesis 15:18
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram...
Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your offspring af...
Genesis 48:4
And said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitf...
Hebrews 11:8 - 9
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to g...
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Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, "Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.
Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
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Genesis 15:13 - 14
Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.
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Exodus 2:22
She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
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Acts 7:17
But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt
Exodus 12:40
The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.
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Genesis 15:13 - 14
Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.
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Jeremiah 25:12
Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jeremiah 30:20
Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them.
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Exodus 3:12
He said, "But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.
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Genesis 17:9 - 12
And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
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Genesis 21:2 - 4
And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
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Luke 1:59
And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father.
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Genesis 25:26
Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
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Genesis 29:31 - 35
When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Genesis 30:5 - 24
And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
Genesis 35:18
And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis 35:23 - 26
The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
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Genesis 37:11
And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
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Genesis 37:28
Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
Genesis 45:4
So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
Psalms 105:17
He had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
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Genesis 39:2
The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.
Genesis 39:21
But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis 39:23
The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's charge, because the Lord was with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it succeed.
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Genesis 41:37 - 40
This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants.
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Genesis 41:41
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:43
And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:46
Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Psalms 105:21
He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions.
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Genesis 41:54 - 55
And the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Genesis 42:5
Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Psalms 105:16
When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread.
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Genesis 42:1 - 3
When Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?
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Genesis 43:2 - 15
And when they had eaten the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little food.
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Genesis 45:1 - 4
Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
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Genesis 45:16
When the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, "Joseph's brothers have come," it pleased Pharaoh and his servants.
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Genesis 45:9 - 10
Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.
Genesis 45:27
But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
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Genesis 46:26 - 27
All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own descendants, not including Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all.
Exodus 1:5
All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
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Genesis 46:5
Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Genesis 46:28
He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Psalms 105:23
Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
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Genesis 49:33
When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.
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Exodus 1:6
Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.
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Genesis 50:25
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.
Exodus 13:19
Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.
Joshua 24:32
As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
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Genesis 23:16
Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
Genesis 33:19
And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.
Joshua 24:32
As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
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Acts 7:5 - 7
Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.
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Acts 13:17
The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
Exodus 1:7
But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.
Exodus 1:12
But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.
Psalms 105:24
And the Lord made his people very fruitful and made them stronger than their foes.
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Exodus 1:8
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
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Exodus 1:9 - 10
And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.
Psalms 105:25
He turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.
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Exodus 1:16 - 18
"When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live."
Exodus 1:22
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.
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Exodus 2:2
The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
Hebrews 11:23
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.
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Exodus 2:3 - 10
When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.
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Daniel 1:4
Youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.
Daniel 1:17
As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
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1 Kings 4:30
So that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?
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Luke 24:19
And he said to them, "What things?" And they said to him, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people.
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Exodus 2:11 - 12
One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.
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Exodus 2:13 - 14
When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, "Why do you strike your companion?
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Acts 7:35
This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' - this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Luke 12:14
But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?
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Exodus 2:15
When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.
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Exodus 2:22
She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.
Exodus 18:3 - 4
Along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom ( for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land").
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Exodus 3:2
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
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Exodus 3:1
Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
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Exodus 3:6
And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
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Exodus 3:6
And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
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Exodus 3:5
Then he said, "Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.
Joshua 5:15
And the commander of the Lord 's army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.
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Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings.
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Exodus 2:24
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
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Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Exodus 3:10
Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.
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Acts 7:27
But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
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Exodus 3:2
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
Exodus 14:19
Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.
Exodus 23:20
Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
Numbers 20:16
And when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
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Exodus 12:41
At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 33:1
The Lord said to Moses, "Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'To your offspring I will give it.
Hebrews 8:9
Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
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Exodus 7:3
But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 7:1 - 12:1
And the Lord said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.
Psalms 78:43 - 51
When he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.
Psalms 105:27 - 36
They performed his signs among them and miracles in the land of Ham.
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Exodus 14:21
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Exodus 14:27 - 31
So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.
Psalms 78:53
He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psalms 106:9
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry, and he led them through the deep as through a desert.
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Exodus 16:1
They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 16:35
The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
Exodus 17:1 - 6
All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
Psalms 78:15
He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
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Acts 7:42
But God turned away and gave them over to worsh...
Acts 13:18
And for about forty years he put up with them i...
Exodus 16:35
The people of Israel ate the manna forty years,...
Numbers 14:33 - 34
And your children shall be shepherds in the wil...
Psalms 95:10
For forty years I loathed that generation and s...
Hebrews 3:10
Therefore I was provoked with that generation, ...
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he provoked for forty years? ...
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Acts 3:22
Moses said, 'The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.
Deuteronomy 18:15
The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers - it is to him you shall listen -
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Deuteronomy 18:15
The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers - it is to him you shall listen -
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Exodus 19:3
While Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel:
Exodus 19:17 - 18
Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.
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Acts 7:53
You who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.
Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
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Deuteronomy 5:27
Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.
Deuteronomy 5:31
But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.
Deuteronomy 33:4
When Moses commanded us a law, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.
John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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Deuteronomy 32:47
For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.
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Romans 3:2
Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
Hebrews 5:12
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food.
1 Peter 4:11
Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies - in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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Exodus 16:3
And the people of Israel said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Numbers 11:4 - 5
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, "Oh that we had meat to eat!
Numbers 14:3 - 4
Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?
Ezekiel 20:8
But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. "Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:24
Because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.
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Exodus 32:1
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, "Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
Exodus 32:23
For they said to me, 'Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
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Exodus 32:1
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, "Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
Exodus 32:23
For they said to me, 'Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
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Exodus 32:4 - 6
And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
Exodus 32:35
Then the Lord sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made.
Deuteronomy 9:16
And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you.
Psalms 106:19
They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a metal image.
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Amos 6:13
You who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, "Have we not by our own strength captured Karnaim for ourselves?
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Isaiah 2:8
Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
Jeremiah 1:16
And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
Jeremiah 25:6 - 7
Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.
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Joshua 24:20
If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.
Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
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Psalms 81:12
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
Ezekiel 20:39
As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God : Go serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.
Romans 1:28
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
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Deuteronomy 4:19
And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, ...
2 Kings 17:16
And they abandoned all the commandments of the ...
2 Kings 21:3
For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah hi...
2 Kings 23:5
And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Ju...
Jeremiah 19:13
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the k...
Zephaniah 1:5
Those who bow down on the roofs to the host of ...
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Amos 5:25 - 27
Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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Acts 7:36
This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
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Amos 5:25 - 27
Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
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Revelation 15:5
After this I looked, and the sanctuary of the tent of witness in heaven was opened.
Exodus 38:21
These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
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Exodus 25:40
And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.
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Joshua 3:14 - 17
So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people.
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Numbers 32:5
And they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us across the Jordan.
Deuteronomy 32:49
Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession.
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Acts 13:19
And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.
Joshua 3:10
And Joshua said, "Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
Joshua 23:9
For the Lord has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.
Joshua 24:18
And the Lord drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the Lord, for he is our God.
2 Chronicles 20:7
Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?
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2 Samuel 7:1
Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies.
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Acts 13:22
And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, 'I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.
1 Samuel 16:1
The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.
Psalms 89:19
Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said: "I have granted help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
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1 Kings 8:17
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 22:7
David said to Solomon, "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the Lord my God.
Psalms 132:5
Until I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.
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Genesis 49:24
Yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel).
Isaiah 49:26
I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the Lord your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
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2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
1 Kings 6:1 - 2
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
1 Kings 8:20
Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
2 Chronicles 2:6
But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?
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Acts 17:24
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man.
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Psalms 11:4
The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord 's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.
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Matthew 5:34 - 35
But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God.
Isaiah 66:1 - 2
Thus says the Lord : "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?
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Isaiah 66:1 - 2
Thus says the Lord : "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?
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Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.
Exodus 32:9
And the Lord said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
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Leviticus 26:41
So that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies - if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity.
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.
Jeremiah 9:26
Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
Ezekiel 44:7
In admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.
Ezekiel 44:9
Thus says the Lord God : No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.
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Malachi 3:7
From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, 'How shall we return?
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1 Kings 19:10
He said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord...
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they kept mocking the messengers of God, de...
Jeremiah 2:30
In vain have I struck your children; they took ...
Matthew 23:31
Thus you witness against yourselves that you ar...
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the...
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great i...
Matthew 21:35
And the tenants took his servants and beat one,...
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Acts 3:14
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you.
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Acts 5:28
Saying, "We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
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Galatians 3:19
Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
Hebrews 2:2
For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution.
Acts 7:38
This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.
Deuteronomy 33:2
He said, "The Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.
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John 7:19
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?
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