Exodus 3:7-14
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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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And now, behold, l the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the m oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
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n Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."
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But Moses said to God, o "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?"
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He said, p "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, q you shall serve God on this mountain."
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Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what shall I say to them?"
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God said to Moses, "I am who I am." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, r 'I am has sent me to you.'"
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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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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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Exodus 2:23
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.
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Exodus 1:11 - 14
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
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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Psalms 105:26
He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
Micah 6:4
For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
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Exodus 6:12
But Moses said to the Lord, "Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?
1 Samuel 18:18
And David said to Saul, "Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father's clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?
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!
Isaiah 6:8
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me.
Jeremiah 1:6
Then I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.
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Exodus 4:12
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.
Exodus 4:15
You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do.
Deuteronomy 31:8
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.
Deuteronomy 31:23
And the Lord commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall bring the people of Israel into the land that I swore to give them. I will be with you.
Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
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Exodus 19:1
On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
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Exodus 6:3
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, ...
Psalms 68:4
Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up ...
John 8:58
Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you...
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today an...
Revelation 1:4
John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Gr...
Revelation 4:8
And the four living creatures, each of them wit...
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