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Exodus Chapter 3

Exodus
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Exodus

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The chapter opens with God appearing to Moses in a burning bush on the border of Egypt. The angel tells Moses to leave his people and go to Pharaoh to demand freedom. This moment highlights God's power and the beginning of the Exodus.

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(1) Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
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Psalms 78:70Psalms 78:71Psalms 78:72Amos 1:1Amos 7:14Amos 7:15Matthew 4:18Matthew 4:19Luke 2:8Exodus 2:16Exodus 2:21Exodus 18:1

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Ezekiel 34:8Ezekiel 34:10Zechariah 11:7Jeremiah 13:20Ezekiel 34:31Ezekiel 36:38

(2) And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
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Exodus 3:4Exodus 3:6Genesis 16:7Genesis 16:8Genesis 16:9Genesis 16:10Genesis 16:11Genesis 16:12Genesis 16:13Genesis 22:15Genesis 22:16Genesis 48:16

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Acts 7:30Acts 7:35Judges 13:20Judges 20:40Judges 6:21II Samuel 24:16

(3) And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
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Job 37:14Psalms 107:8Psalms 111:2Psalms 111:3Psalms 111:4Acts 7:31

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Ezekiel 33:11II Samuel 2:21I Samuel 1:8Ruth 4:1II Samuel 18:30Exodus 3:2

(4) And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
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Deuteronomy 33:16Genesis 22:1Genesis 22:11Genesis 46:2I Samuel 3:4I Samuel 3:6I Samuel 3:8I Samuel 3:10Psalms 62:11Acts 9:4Acts 10:3Acts 10:13

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Ruth 4:1II Samuel 18:30Psalms 78:57Isaiah 22:16Exodus 3:2

(5) And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
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Exodus 19:12Exodus 19:21Leviticus 10:3Hebrews 12:20Genesis 28:16Genesis 28:17Joshua 5:15Ecclesiastes 5:1Acts 7:33

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Acts 7:33James 4:8Ezekiel 1:7Luke 7:38

(6) Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
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Exodus 3:14Exodus 3:15Exodus 4:5Exodus 29:45Genesis 12:1Genesis 12:7Genesis 17:7Genesis 17:8Genesis 26:24Genesis 28:13Genesis 31:42Genesis 32:9

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Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6Deuteronomy 9:27Genesis 25:6Genesis 25:11Genesis 25:19

(7) And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
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Exodus 2:23Exodus 2:24Exodus 2:25Exodus 22:23Genesis 29:32I Samuel 9:16Psalms 22:24Psalms 34:4Psalms 34:6Psalms 106:44Psalms 145:19Isaiah 63:9

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Job 35:9Exodus 22:23Jeremiah 44:25Micah 2:12Exodus 2:23

(8) And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Genesis 11:5Genesis 11:7Genesis 18:21Genesis 50:24Psalms 18:9Psalms 18:10Psalms 18:11Psalms 18:12Psalms 18:13Psalms 18:14Psalms 18:15Psalms 18:16

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Exodus 3:17Exodus 13:5Exodus 23:23Deuteronomy 7:1Deuteronomy 20:17Joshua 3:10

(9) Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
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Exodus 3:7Exodus 2:23Exodus 1:11Exodus 1:13Exodus 1:14Exodus 1:22Psalms 12:5Proverbs 22:22Proverbs 22:23Ecclesiastes 4:1Ecclesiastes 5:8Jeremiah 50:33

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Genesis 43:32

(10) Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
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I Samuel 12:6Psalms 77:20Psalms 103:6Psalms 103:7Psalms 105:26Isaiah 63:11Isaiah 63:12Hosea 12:13Micah 6:4Acts 7:34Acts 7:36

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Deuteronomy 30:20Revelation 3:18Genesis 41:25

(11) And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
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Exodus 4:10Exodus 4:11Exodus 4:12Exodus 4:13Exodus 6:12I Samuel 18:18II Samuel 7:18I Kings 3:7I Kings 3:9Isaiah 6:5Isaiah 6:6Isaiah 6:7

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Genesis 41:25

(12) And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
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Exodus 4:12Exodus 4:15Genesis 15:1Genesis 31:3Deuteronomy 31:23Joshua 1:5Isaiah 41:10Isaiah 43:2Matthew 28:20Mark 16:20Acts 11:21Romans 8:31

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Ezekiel 20:40Joshua 24:15Judges 9:28

(13) And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
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Exodus 3:14Exodus 15:3Genesis 32:29Judges 13:6Judges 13:17Proverbs 30:4Isaiah 7:14Isaiah 9:6Jeremiah 23:6Matthew 1:21Matthew 1:23

(14) And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
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Exodus 6:3Job 11:7Psalms 68:4Psalms 90:2Isaiah 44:6Matthew 18:20Matthew 28:20John 8:58II Corinthians 1:20Hebrews 13:8Revelation 1:4Revelation 1:8

(15) And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
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Exodus 3:6Exodus 4:5Genesis 17:7Genesis 17:8Deuteronomy 1:11Deuteronomy 1:35Deuteronomy 4:1II Chronicles 28:9Matthew 22:32Acts 7:32Psalms 72:17Psalms 72:19

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Matthew 1:17Genesis 25:19Genesis 25:6Genesis 25:11Genesis 26:18Genesis 35:27

(16) Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
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Exodus 4:29Exodus 18:12Exodus 24:11Genesis 1:7Matthew 26:3Acts 11:30Acts 20:17I Peter 5:1Exodus 2:25Exodus 4:31Exodus 13:19Exodus 15:14

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Genesis 31:42Genesis 50:24Numbers 32:11Psalms 39:6Isaiah 54:15Jeremiah 44:25

(17) And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
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Exodus 3:9Exodus 2:23Exodus 2:24Exodus 2:25Genesis 15:13Genesis 15:14Genesis 15:15Genesis 15:16Genesis 15:17Genesis 15:18Genesis 15:19Genesis 15:20

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Exodus 3:8Exodus 13:5Exodus 23:23Deuteronomy 7:1Deuteronomy 20:17Joshua 3:10

(18) And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
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Exodus 3:16Exodus 4:31Joshua 1:17II Chronicles 30:12Psalms 110:3Jeremiah 26:5Exodus 5:1Exodus 5:2Exodus 5:3Exodus 7:16Exodus 9:1Exodus 9:13

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Exodus 5:3Exodus 8:27Numbers 33:8I Samuel 16:5Ezekiel 39:17

(19) And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
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Exodus 5:2Exodus 7:4Exodus 6:1Exodus 7:1Exodus 7:2Exodus 7:3Exodus 7:5Exodus 7:6Exodus 7:7Exodus 7:8Exodus 7:9Exodus 7:10

(20) And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
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Exodus 6:6Exodus 7:5Exodus 9:15Ezekiel 20:33Exodus 7:3Exodus 11:9Deuteronomy 4:34Deuteronomy 6:22Nehemiah 9:10Psalms 105:27Psalms 106:22Psalms 135:8

(21) And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
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Exodus 11:3Exodus 12:36Genesis 39:21Nehemiah 1:11Psalms 106:46Proverbs 16:7Acts 7:10

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Genesis 43:32Exodus 12:36

(22) But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
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Exodus 11:2Exodus 12:35Exodus 12:36Genesis 15:14Psalms 105:37Job 27:16Job 27:17Proverbs 13:22Isaiah 33:1Ezekiel 39:10

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Exodus 11:2Exodus 12:35Genesis 24:53II Chronicles 20:25Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43

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