Bible Cross References
God
Acts 7:2-53
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Stephen answered, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! Before our ancestor Abraham had gone to live in Haran, the God of glory appeared to him in Mesopotamia
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and said to him, 'Leave your family and country and go to the land that I will show you.'
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And so he left his country and went to live in Haran. After Abraham's father died, God made him move to this land where you now live.
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God did not then give Abraham any part of it as his own, not even a square foot of ground, but God promised to give it to him, and that it would belong to him and to his descendants. At the time God made this promise, Abraham had no children.
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This is what God said to him: 'Your descendants will live in a foreign country, where they will be slaves and will be badly treated for four hundred years.
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But I will pass judgment on the people that they will serve, and afterward your descendants will come out of that country and will worship me in this place.'
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Then God gave to Abraham the ceremony of circumcision as a sign of the covenant. So Abraham circumcised Isaac a week after he was born; Isaac circumcised his son Jacob, and Jacob circumcised his twelve sons, the famous ancestors of our race.
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"Jacob's sons became jealous of their brother Joseph and sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him
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and brought him safely through all his troubles. When Joseph appeared before the king of Egypt, God gave him a pleasing manner and wisdom, and the king made Joseph governor over the country and the royal household.
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Then there was a famine all over Egypt and Canaan, which caused much suffering. Our ancestors could not find any food,
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and when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent his sons, our ancestors, on their first visit there.
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On the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and the king of Egypt came to know about Joseph's family.
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So Joseph sent a message to his father Jacob, telling him and the whole family, seventy-five people in all, to come to Egypt.
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Then Jacob went to Egypt, where he and his sons died.
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Their bodies were taken to Shechem, where they were buried in the grave which Abraham had bought from the clan of Hamor for a sum of money.
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"When the time drew near for God to keep the promise he had made to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had grown much larger.
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At last a king who did not know about Joseph began to rule in Egypt.
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He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them, forcing them to put their babies out of their homes, so that they would die.
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It was at this time that Moses was born, a very beautiful child. He was cared for at home for three months,
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and when he was put out of his home, the king's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
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He was taught all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became a great man in words and deeds.
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"When Moses was forty years old, he decided to find out how his fellow Israelites were being treated.
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He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his help and took revenge on the Egyptian by killing him.
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(He thought that his own people would understand that God was going to use him to set them free, but they did not understand.)
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The next day he saw two Israelites fighting, and he tried to make peace between them. 'Listen, men,' he said, 'you are fellow Israelites; why are you fighting like this?'
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But the one who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside. 'Who made you ruler and judge over us?' he asked.
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'Do you want to kill me, just as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?'
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When Moses heard this, he fled from Egypt and went to live in the land of Midian. There he had two sons.
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"After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
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Moses was amazed by what he saw, and went near the bush to get a better look. But he heard the Lord's voice:
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'I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses trembled with fear and dared not look.
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The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
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I have seen the cruel suffering of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groans, and I have come down to set them free. Come now; I will send you to Egypt.'
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"Moses is the one who was rejected by the people of Israel. 'Who made you ruler and judge over us?' they asked. He is the one whom God sent to rule the people and set them free with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush.
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He led the people out of Egypt, performing miracles and wonders in Egypt and at the Red Sea and for forty years in the desert.
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Moses is the one who said to the people of Israel, 'God will send you a prophet, just as he sent me, and he will be one of your own people.'
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He is the one who was with the people of Israel assembled in the desert; he was there with our ancestors and with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and he received God's living messages to pass on to us.
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"But our ancestors refused to obey him; they pushed him aside and wished that they could go back to Egypt.
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So they said to Aaron, 'Make us some gods who will lead us. We do not know what has happened to that man Moses, who brought us out of Egypt.'
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It was then that they made an idol in the shape of a bull, offered sacrifice to it, and had a feast in honor of what they themselves had made.
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So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'People of Israel! It was not to me that you slaughtered and sacrificed animals for forty years in the desert.
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It was the tent of the god Molech that you carried, and the image of Rephan, your star god; they were idols that you had made to worship. And so I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.'
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"Our ancestors had the Tent of God's presence with them in the desert. It had been made as God had told Moses to make it, according to the pattern that Moses had been shown.
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Later on, our ancestors who received the tent from their fathers carried it with them when they went with Joshua and took over the land from the nations that God drove out as they advanced. And it stayed there until the time of David.
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He won God's favor and asked God to allow him to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
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But it was Solomon who built him a house.
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"But the Most High God does not live in houses built by human hands; as the prophet says,
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'Heaven is my throne, says the Lord, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house would you build for me? Where is the place for me to live in?
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Did not I myself make all these things?'
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"How stubborn you are!" Stephen went on to say. "How heathen your hearts, how deaf you are to God's message! You are just like your ancestors: you too have always resisted the Holy Spirit!
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Was there any prophet that your ancestors did not persecute? They killed God's messengers, who long ago announced the coming of his righteous Servant. And now you have betrayed and murdered him.
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You are the ones who received God's law, that was handed down by angels---yet you have not obeyed it!"
Genesis 12:1-3
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The LORD said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you.
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I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.
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I will bless those who bless you, But I will curse those who curse you. And through you I will bless all the nations."
Genesis 17:7
"I will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an everlasting covenant. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.
Genesis 17:8
I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants forever, and I will be their God."
Deuteronomy 4:37
Because he loved your ancestors, he chose you, and by his great power he himself brought you out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
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Do this because you belong to the LORD your God. From all the peoples on earth he chose you to be his own special people.
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"The LORD did not love you and choose you because you outnumbered other peoples; you were the smallest nation on earth.
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But the LORD loved you and wanted to keep the promise that he made to your ancestors. That is why he saved you by his great might and set you free from slavery to the king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 9:5
It is not because you are good and do what is right that the LORD is letting you take their land. He will drive them out because they are wicked and because he intends to keep the promise that he made to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 14:2
You belong to the LORD your God; he has chosen you to be his own people from among all the peoples who live on earth.
Nehemiah 9:7
You, LORD God, chose Abram and led him out of Ur in Babylonia; you changed his name to Abraham.
Nehemiah 9:8
You found that he was faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him. You promised to give him the land of the Canaanites, the land of the Hittites and the Amorites, the land of the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Girgashites, to be a land where his descendants would live. You kept your promise, because you are faithful.
Psalm 105:6-12
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The LORD is our God; his commands are for all the world.
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He will keep his covenant forever, his promises for a thousand generations.
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He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and his promise to Isaac.
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The LORD made a covenant with Jacob, one that will last forever.
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"I will give you the land of Canaan," he said. "It will be your own possession."
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God's people were few in number, strangers in the land of Canaan.
Psalm 105:42-12
Psalm 105:43-12
Psalm 135:4
He chose Jacob for himself, the people of Israel for his own.
Isaiah 41:8
"But you, Israel my servant, you are the people that I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham, my friend.
Isaiah 41:9
I brought you from the ends of the earth; I called you from its farthest corners and said to you, 'You are my servant.' I did not reject you, but chose you.
Isaiah 44:1
The LORD says, "Listen now, Israel, my servant, my chosen people, the descendants of Jacob.
Jeremiah 33:24-26
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"Have you noticed how people are saying that I have rejected Israel and Judah, the two families that I chose? And so they look with contempt on my people and no longer consider them a nation.
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But I, the LORD, have a covenant with day and night, and I have made the laws that control earth and sky.
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And just as surely as I have done this, so I will maintain my covenant with Jacob's descendants and with my servant David. I will choose one of David's descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will be merciful to my people and make them prosperous again."
1 Peter 2:9
But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.
and exalted
Acts 7:17
"When the time drew near for God to keep the promise he had made to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had grown much larger.
Exodus 1:7-9
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but their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and became so numerous and strong that Egypt was filled with them.
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Then, a new king, who knew nothing about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
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He said to his people, "These Israelites are so numerous and strong that they are a threat to us.
Deuteronomy 10:22
When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Psalm 105:23
Then Jacob went to Egypt and settled in that country.
Psalm 105:24
The LORD gave many children to his people and made them stronger than their enemies.
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Acts 7:36
He led the people out of Egypt, performing miracles and wonders in Egypt and at the Red Sea and for forty years in the desert.
Exodus 6:1-14
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Then the LORD said to Moses, "Now you are going to see what I will do to the king. I will force him to let my people go. In fact, I will force him to drive them out of his land."
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God spoke to Moses and said, "I am the LORD.
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I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as Almighty God, but I did not make myself known to them by my holy name, the LORD.
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I also made my covenant with them, promising to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they had lived as foreigners.
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Now I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians have enslaved, and I have remembered my covenant.
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So tell the Israelites that I say to them, 'I am the LORD; I will rescue you and set you free from your slavery to the Egyptians. I will raise my mighty arm to bring terrible punishment upon them, and I will save you.
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I will make you my own people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am the LORD your God when I set you free from slavery in Egypt.
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I will bring you to the land that I solemnly promised to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as your own possession. I am the LORD.' "
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Moses told this to the Israelites, but they would not listen to him, because their spirit had been broken by their cruel slavery.
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Then the LORD said to Moses,
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"Go and tell the king of Egypt that he must let the Israelites leave his land."
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But Moses replied, "Even the Israelites will not listen to me, so why should the king? I am such a poor speaker."
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The LORD commanded Moses and Aaron: "Tell the Israelites and the king of Egypt that I have ordered you to lead the Israelites out of Egypt."
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Reuben, Jacob's first-born, had four sons: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; they were the ancestors of the clans that bear their names.
Exodus 15:1-21
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Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: "I will sing to the LORD, because he has won a glorious victory; he has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea.
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The LORD is my strong defender; he is the one who has saved me. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will sing about his greatness.
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The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is his name.
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"He threw Egypt's army and its chariots into the sea; the best of its officers were drowned in the Red Sea.
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The deep sea covered them; they sank to the bottom like a stone.
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"Your right hand, LORD, is awesome in power; it breaks the enemy in pieces.
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In majestic triumph you overthrow your foes; your anger blazes out and burns them up like straw.
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You blew on the sea and the water piled up high; it stood up straight like a wall; the deepest part of the sea became solid.
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The enemy said, 'I will pursue them and catch them; I will divide their wealth and take all I want; I will draw my sword and take all they have.'
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But one breath from you, LORD, and the Egyptians were drowned; they sank like lead in the terrible water.
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" LORD, who among the gods is like you? Who is like you, wonderful in holiness? Who can work miracles and mighty acts like yours?
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You stretched out your right hand, and the earth swallowed our enemies.
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Faithful to your promise, you led the people you had rescued; by your strength you guided them to your sacred land.
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The nations have heard, and they tremble with fear; the Philistines are seized with terror.
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The leaders of Edom are terrified; Moab's mighty men are trembling; the people of Canaan lose their courage.
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Terror and dread fall upon them. They see your strength, O LORD, and stand helpless with fear until your people have marched past--- the people you set free from slavery.
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You bring them in and plant them on your mountain, the place that you, LORD, have chosen for your home, the Temple that you yourself have built.
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You, LORD, will be king forever and ever."
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The Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground. But when the Egyptian chariots with their horses and drivers went into the sea, the LORD brought the water back, and it covered them.
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The prophet Miriam, Aaron's sister, took her tambourine, and all the women followed her, playing tambourines and dancing.
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Miriam sang for them: "Sing to the LORD, because he has won a glorious victory; he has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea."
Exodus 18:11
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all the gods, because he did this when the Egyptians treated the Israelites with such contempt."
Deuteronomy 4:20
But you are the people he rescued from Egypt, that blazing furnace. He brought you out to make you his own people, as you are today.
Deuteronomy 4:34
Has any god ever dared to go and take a people from another nation and make them his own, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt? Before your very eyes he used his great power and strength; he brought plagues and war, worked miracles and wonders, and caused terrifying things to happen.
Deuteronomy 7:19
Remember the terrible plagues that you saw with your own eyes, the miracles and wonders, and the great power and strength by which the LORD your God set you free. In the same way that he destroyed the Egyptians, he will destroy all these people that you now fear.
1 Samuel 4:8
Who can save us from those powerful gods? They are the gods who slaughtered the Egyptians in the desert!
Nehemiah 9:9-12
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"You saw how our ancestors suffered in Egypt; you heard their call for help at the Red Sea.
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You worked amazing miracles against the king, against his officials and the people of his land, because you knew how they oppressed your people. You won then the fame you still have today.
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Through the sea you made a path for your people and led them through on dry ground. Those who pursued them drowned in deep water, as a stone sinks in the raging sea.
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With a cloud you led them in daytime, and at night you lighted their way with fire.
Psalm 77:13-20
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Everything you do, O God, is holy. No god is as great as you.
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You are the God who works miracles; you showed your might among the nations.
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By your power you saved your people, the descendants of Jacob and of Joseph.
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When the waters saw you, O God, they were afraid, and the depths of the sea trembled.
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The clouds poured down rain; thunder crashed from the sky, and lightning flashed in all directions.
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The crash of your thunder rolled out, and flashes of lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
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You walked through the waves; you crossed the deep sea, but your footprints could not be seen.
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You led your people like a shepherd, with Moses and Aaron in charge.
Psalm 78:12
While their ancestors watched, God performed miracles in the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.
Psalm 78:13
He divided the sea and took them through it; he made the waters stand like walls.
Psalm 78:42-53
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They forgot his great power and the day when he saved them from their enemies
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and performed his mighty acts and miracles in the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.
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He turned the rivers into blood, and the Egyptians had no water to drink.
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He sent flies among them, that tormented them, and frogs that ruined their land.
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He sent locusts to eat their crops and to destroy their fields.
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He killed their grapevines with hail and their fig trees with frost.
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He killed their cattle with hail and their flocks with lightning.
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He caused them great distress by pouring out his anger and fierce rage, which came as messengers of death.
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He did not restrain his anger or spare their lives, but killed them with a plague.
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He killed the first-born sons of all the families of Egypt.
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Then he led his people out like a shepherd and guided them through the desert.
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He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea came rolling over their enemies.
Psalm 105:26-39
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Then he sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
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They did God's mighty acts and performed miracles in Egypt.
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God sent darkness on the country, but the Egyptians did not obey his command.
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He turned their rivers into blood and killed all their fish.
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Their country was overrun with frogs; even the palace was filled with them.
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God commanded, and flies and gnats swarmed throughout the whole country.
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He sent hail and lightning on their land instead of rain;
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he destroyed their grapevines and fig trees and broke down all the trees.
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He commanded, and the locusts came, countless millions of them;
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they ate all the plants in the land; they ate all the crops.
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He killed the first-born sons of all the families of Egypt.
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Then he led the Israelites out; they carried silver and gold, and all of them were healthy and strong.
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The Egyptians were afraid of them and were glad when they left.
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God put a cloud over his people and a fire at night to give them light.
Psalm 106:7-11
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Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand God's wonderful acts; they forgot the many times he showed them his love, and they rebelled against the Almighty at the Red Sea.
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But he saved them, as he had promised, in order to show his great power.
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He gave a command to the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led his people across on dry land.
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He saved them from those who hated them; he rescued them from their enemies.
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But the water drowned their enemies; not one of them was left.
Psalm 114:1-8
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When the people of Israel left Egypt, when Jacob's descendants left that foreign land,
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Judah became the Lord's holy people, Israel became his own possession.
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The Red Sea looked and ran away; the Jordan River stopped flowing.
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The mountains skipped like goats; the hills jumped around like lambs.
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What happened, Sea, to make you run away? And you, O Jordan, why did you stop flowing?
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You mountains, why did you skip like goats? You hills, why did you jump around like lambs?
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Tremble, earth, at the Lord's coming, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
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who changes rocks into pools of water and solid cliffs into flowing springs.
Psalm 135:8-10
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In Egypt he killed all the first-born of people and animals alike.
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There he performed miracles and wonders to punish the king and all his officials.
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He destroyed many nations and killed powerful kings:
Psalm 136:10-15
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He killed the first-born sons of the Egyptians; his love is eternal.
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He led the people of Israel out of Egypt; his love is eternal;
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with his strong hand, his powerful arm; his love is eternal.
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He divided the Red Sea; his love is eternal;
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he led his people through it; his love is eternal;
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but he drowned the king of Egypt and his army; his love is eternal.
Isaiah 63:9-14
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from all their suffering. It was not an angel, but the LORD himself who saved them. In his love and compassion he rescued them. He had always taken care of them in the past,
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but they rebelled against him and made his holy spirit sad. So the LORD became their enemy and fought against them.
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But then they remembered the past, the days of Moses, the servant of the LORD, and they asked, "Where now is the LORD, who saved the leaders of his people from the sea? Where is the LORD, who gave his spirit to Moses?
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Where is the LORD, who by his power did great things through Moses, dividing the waters of the sea and leading his people through the deep water, to win everlasting fame for himself ?" Led by the LORD, they were as sure-footed as wild horses, and never stumbled.
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As cattle are led into a fertile valley, so the LORD gave his people rest. He led his people and brought honor to his name.
Jeremiah 32:20
Long ago you performed miracles and wonders in Egypt, and you have continued to perform them to this day, both in Israel and among all the other nations, so that you are now known everywhere.
Jeremiah 32:21
By means of miracles and wonders that terrified our enemies, you used your power and might to bring your people Israel out of Egypt.
Amos 2:10
I brought you out of Egypt, led you through the desert for forty years, and gave you the land of the Amorites to be your own.
Micah 6:4
I brought you out of Egypt; I rescued you from slavery; I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you.
Micah 7:15
Work miracles for us, LORD, as you did in the days when you brought us out of Egypt.
Micah 7:16
The nations will see this and be frustrated in spite of all their strength. In dismay they will close their mouths and cover their ears.