Exodus 2 Cross References - VIN

¹ A man of the family of Levi married a Levite's daughter. ² Later, the woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She saw that he was a beautiful child, and hid him for three months. ³ But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and she coated it with tar and with pitch, and she placed the boy in it, and she placed it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile. ⁴ The baby's sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. ⁵ Then Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to bathe while her maids walked along the river bank. She saw the container among the reeds and sent a servant girl to get it. ⁶ She opened it and saw a baby boy. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said. ⁷ Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call one of the nursing Hebrew women so she can nurse the child for you?" ⁸ "Please do," she answered. So the girl went and brought the baby's own mother. ⁹ Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it. ¹⁰ The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water." ¹¹ Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people, and took notice of their heavy burdens. He saw an Egyptian beating up a Hebrew, one of his own people. ¹² Looking around and seeing no one else, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. ¹³ And he went out the day after and saw two of the Hebrews fighting: and he said to him who was in the wrong, Why are you fighting your brother? ¹⁴ The man replied: "Who made you a prince or a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid and said: "Surely the matter has become known." ¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he tried to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh, settled in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well. ¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. ¹⁷ And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and came to their rescue and watered their flock. ¹⁸ When they returned to their father Reuel, he asked, "Why have you returned so quickly today? ¹⁹ They said, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds, and he even drew water for us and watered the sheep!" ²⁰ "Then where is he?" He asked his daughters. "Why did you leave the man behind? Go invite him to have something to eat." ²¹ Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. ²² Later she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, because he used to say, "I became an alien in a foreign land." ²³ And then during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God. ²⁴ God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. ²⁵ And God looked upon the Israelites and was made known to them.

¹⁶ These are the names of Levi's sons according to their genealogies: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years. ¹⁷ The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei in their kindreds. ¹⁸ Kohath's descendants included Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Now Kohath lived for 133 years. ¹⁹ And the sons of Merari: Mahli, and Mushi. These were the families of Levi according to their generations. ²⁰ Amram married Jocebed, his father's sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived for 137 years.

⁵⁹ The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, a descendant of Levi, who was born in Egypt. She gave birth to Amram's children: Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.

¹ The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ² The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. ³ The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

¹² The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel, four in all. ¹³ The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart, he and his descendants from generation to generation, to consecrate the most holy things, to offer sacrifices before the LORD, to minister before him and to pronounce blessings in his name as long as they live. ¹⁴ The sons of Moses the man of God were counted as part of the tribe of Levi.

⁵ Well will it be with the man who is kind, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with justice.

²⁰ "At that time Moses was born, and was beautiful in God's sight. For three months he was cared for in his father's house.

²³ By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict.

¹⁴ Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.

³ They said to each other: "Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

¹⁰ Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell into them, but the rest fled to the mountains.

²² Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: Every son who is born must be thrown into the Nile River. However, keep every daughter alive.

² It sends messengers by sea in boats made of reeds that skim over the surface of the water. "Go, swift messengers, to a tall and smooth-skinned people, a people who are feared far and near, a strong and aggressive nation, whose land is divided by rivers."

⁶ The canals will stink. The streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither.

¹³ When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”

¹⁶ When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.

¹⁹ "He dealt craftily with our race, and oppressed our forefathers, by making them expose their infants so that they should not live.

²⁰ Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her hand and went out with all the women behind her with tambourines and dancing.

¹ Miriam and Aaron rebelled against Moses on account of the Cushite woman that he had married. ² and they said, "Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Has not the LORD also spoken through us?" And the LORD heard it. ³ Now the man, Moses, was more humble than any other person on the face of the earth, ⁴ Then the LORD suddenly said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: "Come out the three of you to the tent of meeting." So the three of them went out. ⁵ Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of meeting. He summoned Aaron and Miriam and both went forward. ⁶ He said: "Listen to my words: 'When there are prophets of the LORD among you, I make myself known to them in visions or speak to them in dreams. ⁷ But it is not so with my servant Moses who is most faithful in all my house: ⁸ I speak to him audibly and in visions and not in riddles. If he gazes at the image of the LORD, why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?" ⁹ The anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed. ¹⁰ When the cloud withdrew from above the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous as snow. Aaron turned around to Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. ¹¹ He said to Moses: I beseech thee, my lord, lay not upon us this sin, which we have foolishly committed: ¹² "Do not let her become like something born dead with half its flesh eaten away." ¹³ So Moses prayed to the LORD: "O LORD, please heal her." ¹⁴ the LORD answered: "If her father had spit in her face, she would have to bear her disgrace for seven days. So let her be shut out of the camp for a week, and after that she can be brought back in." ¹⁵ So Miriam was isolated outside the camp for seven days and the people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in.

¹ In the first month the whole congregation of Israel came into the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.

⁴ "I brought you out of the land of Egypt. I redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

¹⁵ Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he's going down to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile and meet him,. Be sure to take with you the staff that was turned into a snake.

²⁰ The LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; look, he comes forth to the water; and tell him, 'This is what the LORD says, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

⁶ The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.

⁹ the LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a place of safety in times of trouble.

⁵ Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from those who malign him.

¹ For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

¹⁰ Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

¹ The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD as streams of water. He turns it wherever he will.

¹⁷ And the LORD prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights

¹⁰ And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry [land].

²¹ and when he was placed outside, Pharaoh's daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.

⁵⁰ »Forgive your people, who have sinned against you. Forgive all their wrongs when they rebelled against you. Cause those who captured them to have mercy on them.

¹¹ O Lord, please let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight to revere in your name. Please, let your servant be successful this day and give him compassion before this man." I was cupbearer for the king.

⁴⁶ He also made them to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

⁸ Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble in spirit.

⁴ The baby's sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

¹ Miriam and Aaron rebelled against Moses on account of the Cushite woman that he had married.

²⁰ Amram married Jocebed, his father's sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived for 137 years.

¹⁰ When my father and my mother forsake me, then LORD will take me up.

³ "Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel. I have upheld you since you were conceived. I have carried you since your birth. ⁴ Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs I will carry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save.

⁸ And I passed by you, and I looked on you, and, behold, your time was the time of love. And I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD. And you became Mine.

²⁵ Adam had intercourse with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth. She said: "God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him."

¹¹ the LORD's angel also said: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael (means: God hears). the LORD has heard of your misery.

⁵ And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.

²⁰ So it was that she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel. She explained: "I asked the LORD for him." ²¹ She will give birth to a son, and you shall give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

²¹ and when he was placed outside, Pharaoh's daughter took him and brought him up as her own son. ²² So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.

⁵ to redeem those under the Law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as a son of Pharaoh's daughter,

¹ Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

¹¹ So the Egyptians put slave masters over them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply (storage) cities for Pharaoh.

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

⁹ "Make the work harder for these people so that they will be too busy to listen to lies."

¹⁴ The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”

⁶ Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke

²⁸ Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim deliverance to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

²² So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action. ²³ When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel. ²⁴ When he saw one of them being mistreated, he defended him and avenged the man who was being mistreated by killing the Egyptian.

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as a son of Pharaoh's daughter, ²⁵ He chose to share the bad treatment with the people of God, rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. ²⁶ He thought that being insulted for the sake of the Messiah was of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.

²⁴ When he saw one of them being mistreated, he defended him and avenged the man who was being mistreated by killing the Egyptian. ²⁵ He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not. ²⁶ The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating one another?’

²⁶ The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating one another?’ ²⁷ But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us? ²⁸ Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'

⁷ The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? ⁸ Instead, you yourselves defraud and do wrong, and you even do this to your brethren.

⁸ Abram said to Lot: "Let us not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.

⁹ And they say, Draw back. And they say, This one came in to sojourn and in judging, he judges: now we vilify you, rather than them. And they urge mightily on the man, Lot and come near to break the door.

⁸ And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us, or shall you really rule over us? And they hated him still more because of his dreams, and because of his words. ⁹ Joseph had another dream and told his brothers: "I had another dream, in which I saw the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bowing down to me." ¹⁰ And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the ground to you?" ¹¹ And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

¹⁹ They said one to another, "Look, this dreamer comes. ²⁰ And now go, and we will kill him and fling him into one of the cisterns and say, `An evil animal devoured him,' and see will we what will become of his dreams.

³ They came together to confront Moses and Aaron. They said: "You have gone far enough! Everyone in the whole congregation is holy. the LORD is among them. Why do you set yourselves above the LORD's assembly?"

¹³ "Is it not enough that you brought us out of a land flowing with milk and honey only to kill us in the desert? Do you also have to order us around?

² The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One. ³ "Let us break their bands asunder and throw off from us their yoke." ⁴ The One who dwells in heaven laughs. the LORD scoffs at them. ⁵ Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his rage (fury). He says: ⁶ "But I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy hill."

¹² The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

²⁵ The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in the LORD is kept safe.

²³ When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You this authority?”

¹⁴ But Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed Me judge or executor between you?”

¹⁴ But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’

²⁷ But those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.'"

³⁵ This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one God sent to be their ruler and redeemer, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

¹¹ He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the evening time, the time that women go out to draw water.

² She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

⁴ The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

⁶ Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan," ⁷ and [that] Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-Aram.

² And he saw a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lying by it: for the beasts were watered out of it, and the mouth thereof was closed with a great stone.

¹⁹ The LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, because all the men who wanted to kill you are dead."

¹ Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. ² Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "Thus may the gods do to me, and may they add to it, surely at this time tomorrow I will make your life as the life of one of them!" ³ And he saw, he rose and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba of Judah, and left his servant there.

¹³ When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” ¹⁴ He said, "I have been very zealous for the LORD the God of Hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, demolished your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; I alone am left, and they seek to take my life!"

³ A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

²¹ "When King Jehoiakim and all his personal troops and officials heard what Uriah said the king wanted to put him to death. But Uriah heard about it and fled in fear to Egypt. ²² And Jehoiakim the king sent Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt. ²³ "They brought Uriah from Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim. The king executed Uriah and threw his body into the burial ground for the common people."

²³ "When they persecute you in one city, flee to another. I tell you truly, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

⁶ Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

²⁹ At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.

²⁷ By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.

¹⁸ Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.

¹⁴ "Let there be the girl to whom I say: 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and who answers: 'Drink, and I will water your camels also.' May she be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown loving-kindness to my master." ¹⁵ Before he finished praying, Rebekah came with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, who was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor. ¹⁶ The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up. ¹⁷ The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher." ¹⁸ "Drink, my lord," she said. She quickly lowered her jar to her hand and gave him a drink. ¹⁹ And when she had finished giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking. ²⁰ She quickly emptied her jar into the water trough. Then she ran back to the well to draw more water. She drew enough for all his camels.

⁶ And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep. ⁷ And he saith, `Lo, the day is still great, it is not time for the cattle to be gathered; water ye the flock, and go, delight yourselves.' ⁸ And they said, "We are not able, until all the flocks are gathered. Then the stone is rolled away from the mouth of the well, and we water the sheep." ⁹ While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess. ¹⁰ Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.

⁴⁵ And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of Egypt.

¹ ¶ Now as Moses shepherded the sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, he led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

¹¹ As they were going up the hill to the town, they met some young women going out to draw water, and they said to them, "Is the seer here?"

²⁵ And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had taken away.

¹⁵ and all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the time of his father, the Philistines stopped up and filled them with earth. ¹⁶ And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you have become much too powerful for us." ¹⁷ So Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and settled there. ¹⁸ Then Isaac dug the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham. The Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He gave them the same names his father had given them. ¹⁹ Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing water. ²⁰ The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac. They said: "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they argued with him. ²¹ And they dug another well, and they quarreled over it also. And he called its name Sitnah. ²² He moved on from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over this one. So he named it Rehoboth (Roomy). He said: "Now the LORD has made room for us. We will prosper in this land."

¹⁰ Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.

¹² Looking around and seeing no one else, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

¹⁸ And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

¹ Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt. ² Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, ³ and her two sons, of one's name was Gershom (for he said, I have become an alien in a foreign land;) ⁴ And the other was called Eliezer - "For the God of my father was mine help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh." ⁵ Jethro, Moses' father-in-law brought Moses' sons and wife to Moses in the desert. He was camped near the mountain of God. ⁶ He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you along with your wife and her two sons." ⁷ When Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, he bowed low and kissed him, and they greeted one another. Then they went into the tent. ⁸ Moses told his father-in-law everything the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel. He talked about all the hardships they had on the way, and how the LORD saved them. ⁹ Jethro rejoiced over all the good that the LORD had done for Israel in delivering them from the hand of the Egyptians. ¹⁰ Jethro said, "Blessed be the LORD who delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, and who delivered the people from the oppression of the Egyptians. ¹¹ Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.” ¹² And Jethro, Moses` father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses` father-in-law in the presence of God.

²⁹ Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you'. Come with us, and we will treat you well; for the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel.

²⁰ But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

¹¹ And when the Kenaaniy who settle the land, see the mourning in the Threshingfloor of Thorns, they say, This is a heavy mourning to the Misrayim: so they call the name thereof Abel Misrayim - beyond Yarden.

⁵ I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."

² And he said, "Behold, my lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you can rise early and go on your way." And they said, "No, but we will spend the night in the square." ³ But he urged them strongly, and they turned aside with him and came into his house. And he made a meal for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

³¹ And he said, Come in, blessed of the LORD! Why are you standing outside? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels. ³² The man went into the house. Laban unloaded the camels and gave them straw and fodder. Then he brought water for Abraham’s servant and his men to wash their feet. ³³ And food was set before him to eat. But he said, I will not eat until I have told my errand. And he said, Speak on.

¹³ When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

⁵⁴ He offered a sacrifice on the mountain. He invited his relatives to eat the meal with him. They ate with him and spent the night on the mountain.

²⁵ They prepared the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

³² the stranger did not sleep in the street, for I opened my doors to the traveler;

¹¹ All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD allowed to come upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

¹⁰ and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.

² Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for, by so doing, some have entertained angels, without knowing them.

³⁸ "I have been with you now for twenty years. Your sheep and your goats have not failed to reproduce. I have not even eaten any rams from your flocks. ³⁹ I did not bring to you what was torn by beasts; I bore the loss of it, you required it of my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. ⁴⁰ This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

¹⁰ The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

²⁰ So Moses took his wife and son, put them on the donkey, and headed back to the land of Egypt. Moses took the staff of God in his hand. ²¹ the LORD said to Moses: "When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put in your power. I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go." ²² You are to say to Pharaoh, 'This is what the LORD says: "Israel is my firstborn son. ²³ And I say to you, 'Let my son go so he may serve me.' If you refuse to let him go, then, I will kill your firstborn son."'" ²⁴ But later on, at the lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him. ²⁵ Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and threw it at Moses' feet. She said: "You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me."

² Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, ³ and her two sons, of one's name was Gershom (for he said, I have become an alien in a foreign land;) ⁴ And the other was called Eliezer - "For the God of my father was mine help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh." ⁵ Jethro, Moses' father-in-law brought Moses' sons and wife to Moses in the desert. He was camped near the mountain of God. ⁶ He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you along with your wife and her two sons."

¹¹ I am not saying this because of lack, since I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. ¹² I know what it is to be poor, and I know what it is to be rich: I have gone through many things and experienced many things, both to be full and to be hungry, both to have plenty and to be in want.

⁶ But godliness with contentment is great gain.

²⁵ He chose to share the bad treatment with the people of God, rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

⁵ Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

¹⁰ But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

³ and her two sons, of one's name was Gershom (for he said, I have become an alien in a foreign land;) ⁴ And the other was called Eliezer - "For the God of my father was mine help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh."

²¹ “You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

²⁰ They wandered from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another.

¹⁴ The sons of Moses the man of God were counted as part of the tribe of Levi. ¹⁵ The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. ¹⁶ The descendants of Gershom: Shubael was the first. ¹⁷ The descendants of Eliezer: Rehabiah was the first. Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very numerous.

¹⁵ For we are aliens and vagrants in your presence, as were all of our ancestors. Our days on the earth pass away like shadows, and we have no hope.

¹² Hear my prayer, O LORD, and listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I am an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.

¹⁹ I am a stranger on the earth. Do not hide your commandments from me.

¹³ All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. ¹⁴ Those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.

¹⁰ the LORD said: "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood (life) cries out to me from the ground.

²⁰ And the LORD said, "The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is exceeding grievous. ²¹ I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.

⁷ The LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. ⁸ I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ⁹ And now, look, the cry of distress of the Israelites has come to me, and also I see the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

⁷ And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty- three, when they spoke to Pharao.

²² "Do not mistreat any widow or orphan. ²³ If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry: ²⁴ and My wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. ²⁵ "When you lend money to any of my people who are poor, do not act like a moneylender and require him to pay interest. ²⁶ If you take your neighbor's coat as collateral, you shall return it to him by sunset, ²⁷ because it is his only garment; it is his cloak for his skin. In what will he sleep? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, because I am gracious.

¹⁶ When we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.

¹⁵ Pay his wages that same day before the sun sets, because he is poor and his livelihood depends on it. Otherwise, he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will incur guilt."

⁶ But the Egyptians oppressed us, afflicted us, and assigned us to hard labor. ⁷ Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers. the LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

¹¹ the LORD answered: "Did I free you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, and the Philistines? ¹² the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppress you? And ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hands.

⁹ You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea.

⁶ (18:7) In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God; out of His temple He heard my voice, and my cry came before Him unto His ears.

⁶ I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were freed from the basket. ⁷ In a time of need you called out and I delivered you; I answered you from the dark thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. [Interlude]

¹⁹ Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. ²⁰ He sent his message and healed them. He rescued them from the grave.

⁷ For the vineyard of the LORD Almighty is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is the plantation of his delight. And he waited for justice, but look! Bloodshed! For righteousness, but look! A cry of distress!

²⁰ And it will be a sign and a witness to the LORD Almighty in the land of Egypt; when they cry out to the LORD because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.

¹⁹ After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt. ²⁰ and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, because those who were trying to kill the child are dead."

³⁰ After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

²³ Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died. ²⁴ But the word of God continued to grow and spread.

⁴ Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

¹⁴ »I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve! Afterward they will come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ And the fourth generation they shall turn back hither: for the crime of the Amorite has not been completed till now. ¹⁷ The sun went down and it was dark. A smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. ¹⁸ On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram. He said: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

⁷ "I will establish my covenant as a long lasting covenant between us. It will be for your descendants after you, for the generations to come. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

¹⁸ Abraham will surely become a great and strong nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed on account of him.

³ Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your seed I will give all these lands. And I will cause to rise My oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

²⁴ That night the LORD appeared to Isaac. the LORD said: "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, because I am with you. I will bless you and increase the number of your descendants for my servant Abraham's sake."

¹² He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. ¹³ And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping. ¹⁴ "Your descendants will be like the dust on the earth. You will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. Every family on earth will be blessed through you and through your descendants.

²⁸ And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

² And God spoke to Israel in a vision of the night and said, Jacob! Jacob! And he said, Here I am. ³ Then he said, "I am the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there. ⁴ I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph's hand will close your eyes.”

⁵ And I also have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom the Egyptians are enslaving. And I have remembered My covenant.

¹⁸ When the LORD established judges he supported each judge. He delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days the judge lived. He had compassion for them as they groaned under those who oppressed and afflicted them.

⁸ and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give unto his seed the land of the Cananites, Hittites, Amorites, Perezites, Jebusites, and Girgashites - and hast made good thy words: for thou art righteous, ⁹ You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea.

²⁷ So you delivered them into the control of their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed, they cried out to you, and you heard from heaven. In your great compassion you gave them deliverers who rescued them from the control of their enemies. ²⁸ But after they had rest, they again did evil before you. Therefore you left them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them. Yet when they returned and cried to you, you heard from heaven and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,

⁵ They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

²⁴ For He has not despised nor hated the affliction of the afflicted; and He has not hidden His face from him, but when he cried to Him, He heard.

¹¹ Let the cries of the prisoners reach you. With the strength of your power, release those condemned to death.

²⁰ to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

⁶ O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones. ⁷ He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth. ⁸ He remembered his covenant forever, the word he commanded to a thousand generations. ⁹ Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac; ¹⁰ He presented it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant. ¹¹ saying, To you I will give the land of Canaan, the portion of your inheritance; ¹² When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. ¹³ they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

⁴² For He remembered His holy word and His servant Abraham;

⁴⁵ he remembered his covenant and according to the multitude of his mercies;

³ When I called, you answered me. You made me bold. You strengthened me.

⁷² to show mercy to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; ⁷³ the oath that He swore to our father Abraham;

⁸ A new king, who knew nothing about Joseph, began to rule in Egypt.

⁷ The LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. ⁸ I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

³¹ The people believed them. When they heard that the LORD was concerned about the people of Israel and that he had seen their misery, they knelt, bowed low and worshiped.

¹¹ She vowed a vow, and said, “the LORD of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

¹² It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction and return good to me for his cursing today."

²⁷ "He comes to men and says: 'I sinned, and perverted what was right, but I did not get what I deserved.'

⁶ for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

²² Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

²³ Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you evildoers!'"

²⁵ “The Lord has done this for me. In these days He has shown me favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”