Exodus 3:1-8
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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 w mountain of God.
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x And y 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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And Moses said, "I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned."
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When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, z God called to him a out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am."
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Then he said, "Do not come near; b take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground."
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And he said, c "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 d he was afraid to look at God.
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Then the Lord said, e "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their f taskmasters. I know their sufferings,
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and g I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and h to bring them up out of that land to a i good and broad land, a land j flowing with milk and honey, to the place of k the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Cross References
Exodus 4:27
The Lord said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.
Exodus 18:5
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the mountain of God.
Exodus 24:13
So Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God.
Numbers 10:33
So they set out from the mount of the Lord three days' journey. And the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.
1 Kings 19:8
And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.
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Cross References
Exodus 3:2 - 10
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.
Acts 7:30 - 35
Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
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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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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:
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Deuteronomy 33:16
With the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph, on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.
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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.
Exodus 19:12
And you shall set limits for the people all around, saying, 'Take care not to go up into the mountain or touch the edge of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.
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Cross References
Exodus 4:5
"that they may believe that the Lord, the God o...
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "...
1 Kings 18:36
And at the time of the offering of the oblation...
Matthew 22:32
'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac,...
Mark 12:26
And as for the dead being raised, have you not ...
Luke 20:37
But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed...
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1 Kings 19:13
And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?
Isaiah 6:1 - 2
In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
Isaiah 6:5
And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!
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Exodus 2:23 - 25
During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
Nehemiah 9:9
And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.
Psalms 106:44
Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.
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Exodus 5:13 - 14
The taskmasters were urgent, saying, "Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.
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Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.
Genesis 18:21
I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know.
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Exodus 6:6
Say therefore to the people of Israel, 'I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.
Exodus 12:51
And on that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.
Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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Deuteronomy 1:25
And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, 'It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.
Deuteronomy 8:7 - 8
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills.
Deuteronomy 8:9
A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
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Cross References
Exodus 13:5
And when the Lord brings you into the land of t...
Exodus 33:3
Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; bu...
Leviticus 20:24
But I have said to you, 'You shall inherit thei...
Numbers 13:27
And they told him, "We came to the land to whic...
Deuteronomy 26:9
And he brought us into this place and gave us t...
Deuteronomy 26:15
Look down from your holy habitation, from heave...
Jeremiah 11:5
That I may confirm the oath that I swore to you...
Jeremiah 32:22
And you gave them this land, which you swore to...
Ezekiel 20:6
On that day I swore to them that I would bring ...
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Cross References
Genesis 15:18 - 21
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
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