Exodus 2:11-15

Moses Flees to Midian

11 Now it came to pass in those days, j when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12 So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he k killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 And l when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men m were fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, "Why are you striking your companion?" 14 Then he said, n "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" So Moses o feared and said, "Surely this thing is known!" 15 When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But p Moses fled from 1 the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of q Midian; and he sat down by r a well.

  1. Cross References
    Acts 7:23
    Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
    Acts 7:24
    And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.
    Hebrews 11:24 - 26
    By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
  2. Cross References
    Acts 7:24
    And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.
    Acts 7:25
    For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.
  3. Cross References
    Acts 7:26 - 28
    "And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, 'Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?'
  4. Cross References
    Proverbs 25:8
    Do not go hastily to court; For what will you do in the end, When your neighbor has put you to shame?
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 19:9
    And they said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one came in to stay here, and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them." So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.
    Acts 7:27
    But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
    Acts 7:28
    'Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?'
  6. Cross References
    Judges 6:27
    So Gideon took ten men from among his servants and did as the LORD had said to him. But because he feared his father's household and the men of the city too much to do it by day, he did it by night.
    Hebrews 11:27
    By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.
  7. Cross References
    Acts 7:29
    Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.
    Hebrews 11:27
    By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 3:1
    Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
  9. Cross References
    Genesis 24:11
    And he made his camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.
    Genesis 29:2
    And he looked, and saw a well in the field; and behold, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks. A large stone was on the well's mouth.
    Exodus 15:27
    Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there by the waters.
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