Numbers 20:15

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how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

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  • Gen 46:6 : 6 Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.
  • Exod 12:40 : 40 Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.
  • Deut 26:6 : 6 But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.
  • Acts 7:15 : 15 So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,
  • Gen 15:13 : 13 Then the LORD said to Abram,“Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
  • Acts 7:19 : 19 This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
  • Num 11:5 : 5 We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
  • Num 16:13 : 13 Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?
  • Exod 1:11-14 : 11 So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites, 13 and they made the Israelites serve rigorously. 14 They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.
  • Exod 1:16 : 16 “When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”
  • Exod 1:22 : 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”
  • Exod 5:14 : 14 The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked,“Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past– both yesterday and today?”

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  • Deut 26:5-8
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    83%

    5Then you must affirm before the LORD your God,“A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

    6But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.

    7So we cried out to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, and he heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.

    8Therefore the LORD brought us out of Egypt with tremendous strength and power, as well as with great awe-inspiring signs and wonders.

  • Num 20:16
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    16So when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent a messenger, and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country.

  • Num 20:14
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    14Rejection by the Edomites Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom:“Thus says your brother Israel:‘You know all the hardships we have experienced,

  • Exod 14:10-12
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    10When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the LORD,

    11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

    12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”

  • 1 Sam 12:8
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    8When Jacob entered Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the LORD. The LORD sent Moses and Aaron, and they led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

  • Deut 29:16
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    16The Results of Disobedience“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

  • Exod 5:15
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    15The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?

  • Acts 7:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

    12So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

  • Acts 7:39
    76%

    39Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

  • Exod 1:12-13
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    76%

    12But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,

    13and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.

  • Exod 14:5
    75%

    5When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and the king and his servants said,“What in the world have we done? For we have released the people of Israel from serving us!”

  • Josh 24:17
    75%

    17For the LORD our God took us and our fathers out of slavery in the land of Egypt and performed these awesome miracles before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations.

  • Deut 6:21-22
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    21you must say to them,“We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.

    22And he brought signs and great, devastating wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on his whole family before our very eyes.

  • Acts 7:15
    75%

    15So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,

  • Num 14:3
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    3Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”

  • Exod 5:20-21
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    20When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,

    21and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”

  • Exod 2:23
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    23The Call of the Deliverer During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.

  • Exod 13:14
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    14In the future, when your son asks you‘What is this?’ you are to tell him,‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery.

  • Exod 6:9
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    9Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

  • Neh 9:9
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    9“You saw the affliction of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their cry at the Red Sea.

  • Exod 3:9
    74%

    9And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.

  • Acts 7:19
    74%

    19This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

  • Exod 12:33
    74%

    33The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying,“We are all dead!”

  • Exod 18:8
    74%

    8Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel’s sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

  • Ps 106:7
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    7Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.

  • Exod 12:40
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    40Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

  • Exod 17:3
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    3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

  • Exod 5:4
    74%

    4The king of Egypt said to them,“Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”

  • Josh 24:5
    73%

    5I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt down when I intervened in their land. Then I brought you out.

  • Exod 3:7
    73%

    7The LORD said,“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

  • Num 20:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

    5Why have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”

  • Lam 5:6
    73%

    6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.

  • Deut 1:27
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    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

  • Num 16:13
    73%

    13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?

  • Exod 2:19
    73%

    19They said,“An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”