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Exodus Chapter 2

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Exodus

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In this chapter the Israelites are commanded to kill their firstborn sons, but many mothers hide their infants in the desert. As a result, the children survive and multiply in the wilderness. This shows God's care for His people even when they act against Him.

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(1) And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
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Exodus 6:16Exodus 6:17Exodus 6:18Exodus 6:19Exodus 6:20Numbers 26:59I Chronicles 6:1I Chronicles 6:2I Chronicles 6:3I Chronicles 23:12I Chronicles 23:13I Chronicles 23:14

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Numbers 26:59Luke 12:53Exodus 6:16Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17

(2) And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
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Psalms 112:5Acts 7:20Hebrews 11:23

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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11Luke 1:24Hebrews 11:23Genesis 38:5I Samuel 2:21

(3) And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
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Exodus 1:22Matthew 2:13Matthew 2:16Acts 7:19Isaiah 18:2Genesis 6:14Genesis 11:3Genesis 14:10

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Genesis 6:14Revelation 10:6II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11Exodus 2:5Exodus 40:3

(4) And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
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Exodus 15:20Numbers 12:1Numbers 12:2Numbers 12:3Numbers 12:4Numbers 12:5Numbers 12:6Numbers 12:7Numbers 12:8Numbers 12:9Numbers 12:10Numbers 12:11

(5) And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
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Acts 7:21I Kings 17:6Psalms 9:9Psalms 12:5Psalms 46:1Psalms 76:10Proverbs 21:1Jonah 1:17Jonah 2:10

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Luke 12:53Genesis 15:18Exodus 1:22Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:20Exodus 7:21

(6) And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
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I Kings 8:50Nehemiah 1:11Psalms 106:46Proverbs 21:1Acts 7:21I Peter 3:8

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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11II Kings 4:35II Samuel 12:22II Kings 4:34

(7) Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
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Exodus 2:4Exodus 15:20Numbers 12:1Numbers 26:59

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Exodus 2:9II Chronicles 22:11II Kings 11:2Luke 12:53II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11

(8) And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
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Psalms 27:10Isaiah 46:3Isaiah 46:4Ezekiel 16:8Exodus 6:20

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Luke 12:53Esther 2:7Micah 7:6Matthew 10:35Genesis 20:12Leviticus 18:9

(9) And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11Exodus 2:7II Kings 4:34Exodus 2:10Judges 11:34

(10) And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
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Genesis 48:5Acts 7:21Acts 7:22Galatians 4:5Hebrews 11:24I John 3:1Genesis 4:25Genesis 16:11I Samuel 1:20Matthew 1:21

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I Corinthians 13:11Exodus 2:9Luke 12:53II Samuel 12:18Ezekiel 17:6Genesis 20:12

(11) And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
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Acts 7:22Acts 7:23Acts 7:24Hebrews 11:24Hebrews 11:25Hebrews 11:26Exodus 1:11Exodus 3:7Exodus 5:9Exodus 5:14Isaiah 58:6Matthew 11:28

(12) And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
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Acts 7:24Acts 7:25Acts 7:26

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(13) And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
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Acts 7:26I Corinthians 6:7I Corinthians 6:8

(14) And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
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Genesis 19:9Genesis 37:8Genesis 37:9Genesis 37:10Genesis 37:11Genesis 37:19Genesis 37:20Numbers 16:3Numbers 16:13Psalms 2:2Psalms 2:3Psalms 2:4

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Jeremiah 44:25

(15) Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
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Exodus 4:19Genesis 28:6Genesis 28:7I Kings 19:1I Kings 19:2I Kings 19:3I Kings 19:13I Kings 19:14Proverbs 22:3Jeremiah 26:21Jeremiah 26:22Jeremiah 26:23

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Genesis 41:25II Kings 4:26Genesis 12:15Genesis 41:8Genesis 41:14Genesis 41:16

(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.
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Exodus 3:1Genesis 14:18Genesis 41:45Genesis 24:11Genesis 24:14Genesis 24:15Genesis 24:16Genesis 24:17Genesis 24:18Genesis 24:19Genesis 24:20Genesis 29:6

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Ezekiel 34:8Exodus 3:1Ezekiel 34:10Ezekiel 36:38Zechariah 11:7Genesis 27:46

(17) And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
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Genesis 21:25Genesis 26:15Genesis 26:16Genesis 26:17Genesis 26:18Genesis 26:19Genesis 26:20Genesis 26:21Genesis 26:22Exodus 2:12Genesis 29:10

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Ezekiel 34:8Ezekiel 34:10Ezekiel 34:2Exodus 2:19Genesis 32:16Zechariah 11:7

(18) And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
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Exodus 3:1Exodus 4:18Exodus 18:1Exodus 18:2Exodus 18:3Exodus 18:4Exodus 18:5Exodus 18:6Exodus 18:7Exodus 18:8Exodus 18:9Exodus 18:10

(19) And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
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Genesis 50:11Genesis 29:10

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Ezekiel 34:8Ezekiel 34:10Ezekiel 34:2Exodus 2:17Zechariah 11:7

(20) And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
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Genesis 24:31Genesis 24:32Genesis 24:33Genesis 18:5Genesis 19:2Genesis 19:3Genesis 29:13Genesis 31:54Genesis 43:25Job 31:32Job 42:11I Timothy 5:10

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I Samuel 1:8Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43Jeremiah 29:6Ezekiel 16:55

(21) And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
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Exodus 2:10Genesis 31:38Genesis 31:39Genesis 31:40Philippians 4:11Philippians 4:12I Timothy 6:6Hebrews 11:25Hebrews 13:5James 1:10Exodus 4:20Exodus 4:21

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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17

(22) And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
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I Chronicles 23:14I Chronicles 23:15I Chronicles 23:16I Chronicles 23:17Exodus 2:10Exodus 18:3Exodus 22:21I Chronicles 16:20I Chronicles 29:15Psalms 39:12Psalms 119:19Acts 7:29

(23) And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
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Exodus 7:7Acts 7:30Exodus 4:19Matthew 2:19Matthew 2:20Acts 12:23Acts 12:24Genesis 16:11Numbers 20:16Deuteronomy 26:6Deuteronomy 26:7Psalms 12:5

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Job 35:9II Chronicles 21:19Jonah 2:2Nehemiah 5:5Exodus 3:7Ezekiel 21:12

(24) And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
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Exodus 6:5Judges 2:18Nehemiah 9:27Nehemiah 9:28Psalms 22:5Psalms 22:24Psalms 79:11Psalms 102:20Psalms 138:3Genesis 15:14Genesis 15:15Genesis 15:16

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Leviticus 26:42Acts 7:8Genesis 17:19Exodus 6:5II Kings 13:23II Kings 23:3

(25) And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
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Exodus 4:31I Samuel 1:11II Samuel 16:12Job 33:27Luke 1:25Exodus 1:8Exodus 3:7Exodus 3:8Psalms 1:6Psalms 55:22Matthew 7:23

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