1The high priest said, "Are these things so?"

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John 18:19, John 18:21, John 18:19, John 18:21, Matthew 26:61

2He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

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Genesis 11:31, Genesis 11:31, Acts 22:1, Acts 22:1, Psalms 29:3

3and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.'

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Genesis 12:1, Genesis 12:1, Hebrews 11:8, Hebrews 11:8, Joshua 24:3

4Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

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Genesis 12:4, Genesis 12:5, Genesis 12:4, Genesis 12:5, Genesis 11:31

5He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

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Genesis 17:8, Genesis 17:8, Genesis 12:7, Genesis 12:7, Genesis 15:18

6God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

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Genesis 15:13, Genesis 15:13, Galatians 3:17, Galatians 3:17, Genesis 15:16

7'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'

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Exodus 3:12, Exodus 3:12, Genesis 15:14, Genesis 15:16, Psalms 105:27

8He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

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Genesis 17:9, Genesis 17:14, Genesis 35:23, Genesis 35:26, Genesis 17:9

9"The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

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Genesis 39:2, Genesis 39:2, Psalms 105:17, Psalms 105:17, Isaiah 43:2

10and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

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Proverbs 3:4, Proverbs 3:4, Proverbs 2:6, 2 Timothy 4:18, Genesis 48:16

11Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

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Genesis 41:54, Genesis 41:57, Genesis 41:54, Genesis 41:57, Genesis 45:11

12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

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Genesis 42:1, Genesis 42:24, Genesis 42:1, Genesis 42:24, Genesis 43:2

13On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.

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Genesis 45:1, Genesis 45:18, Genesis 46:31, Genesis 47:10, Genesis 45:1

14Then Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

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Genesis 46:26, Genesis 46:27, Deuteronomy 10:22, Genesis 46:26, Genesis 46:27

15Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

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Genesis 49:33, Exodus 1:6, Genesis 49:33, Exodus 1:6, Genesis 46:3

16and they were brought back to Shechem, and placed in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor in Shechem.

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Joshua 24:32, Joshua 24:32, Genesis 23:16, Genesis 23:16, Exodus 13:19

17"But as the time of the promise came close which God had made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

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Acts 7:6, Exodus 1:7, Exodus 1:12, Acts 13:17, Acts 7:6

18until there arose a different king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

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Exodus 1:8, Exodus 1:8

19The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they would not stay alive.

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Psalms 105:25, Psalms 105:25, Exodus 1:9, Exodus 1:22, Exodus 1:9

20At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.

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Hebrews 11:23, Hebrews 11:23, Exodus 2:2, Exodus 2:10, Exodus 2:2

21When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

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Hebrews 11:24, Deuteronomy 32:26, Hebrews 11:24, Deuteronomy 32:26, Exodus 2:2

22Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

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Isaiah 19:11, Isaiah 19:11, Daniel 1:4, 2 Chronicles 9:22, Daniel 1:4

23But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

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Exodus 2:11, Exodus 2:12, Exodus 2:11, Exodus 2:12, Proverbs 21:1

24Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.

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John 18:10, John 18:11, John 18:25, John 18:27, Acts 7:28

25He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they did not understand.

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Acts 15:7, 2 Kings 5:1, 2 Corinthians 6:1, Acts 15:4, Psalms 106:7

26"The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'

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Exodus 2:13, Exodus 2:15, Exodus 2:13, Exodus 2:15, 1 Corinthians 6:6

27But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

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Acts 7:35, Acts 7:35, Luke 12:14, Luke 12:14, Acts 4:11

28Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'

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29Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

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Exodus 18:2, Exodus 18:4, Exodus 18:2, Exodus 18:4, Exodus 2:14

30"When forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

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Exodus 3:1, Exodus 3:2, Exodus 3:1, Exodus 3:2, Isaiah 43:2

31When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came,

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Exodus 3:3, Exodus 3:4, Exodus 3:3, Exodus 3:4

32'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob.' Moses trembled, and dared not look.

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Exodus 3:6, Exodus 3:6, Matthew 22:32, Matthew 22:32, Revelation 1:17

33The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

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Exodus 3:5, Exodus 3:5, Joshua 5:15, Joshua 5:15, 2 Peter 1:18

34I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'

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Exodus 3:7, Exodus 3:10, Exodus 3:7, Exodus 3:10, Psalms 106:44

35"This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'-God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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Psalms 118:22, Psalms 118:23, Luke 19:14, Psalms 118:22, Psalms 118:23

36This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

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Exodus 14:21, Exodus 12:41, Exodus 14:21, Exodus 12:41, Exodus 33:1

37This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.'

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Deuteronomy 18:15, Deuteronomy 18:19, Deuteronomy 18:15, Deuteronomy 18:19, Acts 3:22

38This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received words of life to give to us,

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Romans 3:2, Romans 3:2, Hebrews 5:12, Hebrews 5:12, Acts 7:53

39to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

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Numbers 14:3, Numbers 14:4, Numbers 14:3, Numbers 14:4, Numbers 11:5

40saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

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Exodus 32:1, Exodus 32:1, Exodus 32:23, Exodus 32:23

41They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

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Psalms 106:19, Psalms 106:21, Psalms 106:19, Psalms 106:21, Nehemiah 9:18

42But God turned, and abandoned them to serve the hosts of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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Amos 5:25, Amos 5:26, Amos 5:25, Amos 5:26, Ezekiel 20:39

43You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'

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Amos 5:26, Amos 5:27, Amos 5:26, Amos 5:27, Deuteronomy 5:8

44"Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

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Exodus 25:40, Exodus 25:40, Exodus 38:21, Exodus 38:21, Hebrews 8:5

45which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,

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Psalms 44:2, Psalms 44:2, Acts 13:19, Joshua 24:18, Joshua 23:9

46who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

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Psalms 132:1, Psalms 132:5, Psalms 132:1, Psalms 132:5, Acts 13:22

47But Solomon built him a house.

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1 Kings 8:20, 1 Kings 8:20, 2 Samuel 7:13, 1 Kings 6:37, 1 Kings 6:38

48However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

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Acts 17:24, Acts 17:25, Acts 17:24, Acts 17:25, Isaiah 66:1

49'heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord; 'or what is the place of my rest?

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Isaiah 66:1, Isaiah 66:1, Psalms 11:4, Psalms 11:4, John 4:21

50Did not my hand make all these things?'

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Jeremiah 32:17, Jeremiah 32:17, Acts 14:15, Psalms 33:6, Psalms 33:9

51"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

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Deuteronomy 10:16, Deuteronomy 10:16, Leviticus 26:41, Leviticus 26:41, Isaiah 63:10

52Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

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Matthew 5:12, Matthew 5:12, 1 Kings 19:10, 2 Chronicles 36:16, 1 Kings 19:10

53You received the Law as it was ordained by angels, and did not keep it!"

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Hebrews 2:2, Hebrews 2:2, Galatians 3:19, Galatians 3:19, Acts 7:38

54Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

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Acts 5:33, Acts 5:33, Psalms 35:16, Psalms 35:16, Matthew 13:50

55But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

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Mark 16:19, Mark 16:19, Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 1:3, 2 Corinthians 4:6

56and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"

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Matthew 26:64, Matthew 26:65, Matthew 26:64, Matthew 26:65, Revelation 11:19

57But they shouted out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

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Zechariah 7:11, Zechariah 7:11, Acts 23:27, Psalms 58:4, Acts 23:27

58They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

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Acts 22:20, Acts 22:20, Acts 8:1, Acts 8:1, Leviticus 24:14

59They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

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Luke 23:46, Luke 23:46, Psalms 31:5, Psalms 31:5, Acts 22:16

60He kneeled down, and shouted out, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.

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Matthew 5:44, Matthew 5:44, Luke 23:34, Luke 23:34, 1 Corinthians 15:20