Moses Flees to Midian
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One day, z when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their a burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.
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He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he b struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
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When c 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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He answered, d "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known."
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When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But e Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by f a well.
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Now the g priest of Midian had seven daughters, and h they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
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The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and i watered their flock.
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When they came home to their father j Reuel, he said, "How is it that you have come home so soon today?"
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They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and i watered the flock."
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He said to his daughters, "Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may k eat bread."
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And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter l Zipporah.
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She gave birth to a son, and he called his name m Gershom, for he said, "I have been a n sojourner in a foreign land."
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Acts 7:23
When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
Hebrews 11:24 - 26
By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
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Exodus 1:11
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
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Acts 7:24
And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian.
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Acts 7:23 - 28
When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
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Luke 12:14
But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?
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Acts 7:29
At this retort Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
Hebrews 11:27
By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.
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Genesis 24:11
And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.
Genesis 29:2
As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well's mouth was large.
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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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Genesis 24:11
And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.
Genesis 29:10
Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
1 Samuel 9:11
As they went up the hill to the city, they met young women coming out to draw water and said to them, "Is the seer here?
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Genesis 29:10
Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
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Numbers 10:29
And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Mi...
Exodus 3:1
Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-i...
Exodus 4:18
Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and...
Exodus 18:1
Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-...
Exodus 18:5
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his son...
Exodus 18:9
And Jethro rejoiced for all the good that the L...
Exodus 18:12
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a bur...
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Exodus 2:17
The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock.
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Genesis 31:54
And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country.
Genesis 43:25
They prepared the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.
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Exodus 4:25
Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!
Exodus 18:2
Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her home.
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Exodus 18:3
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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Acts 7:29
At this retort Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
Hebrews 11:13 - 14
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
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