1And the high-priest said, Are then these things so?

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

2And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt 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, "Go forth from thy country and thy kindred, and come into the land which I will show thee."

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

4Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Haran; and from thence, after his father was dead, he caused him to remove into this land wherein ye now dwell;

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

5and he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on; and he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him, when as yet he had no child.

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

6And God spoke in this manner: "That his posterity should sojourn in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bondage, and ill-treat them four hundred years;

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

7and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge," said God; "and after that they shall come forth, and shall worship me in this place."

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

8And he gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so he begat Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

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

9And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt; and 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 in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and 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 there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress; and our fathers found no Sustenance.

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

12But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers first.

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

13And at the second time Joseph was recognized by his brothers, and the kindred of Joseph became known 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 called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, seventy five souls.

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

15And Jacob went down [into Egypt], and died, he 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 removed to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.

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

17But as the time of the promise drew near, which God solemnly 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 another king arose, who knew not Joseph.

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Exodus 1:8, Exodus 1:8

19The same dealt subtly with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, so that they should cast out their infants, that they might not be preserved alive.

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

20In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly fair; who was nourished in his father’s house three months.

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

21And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for herself as a son.

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

22And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in his worlds and deeds.

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

23And when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.

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

24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed by smiting the Egyptian.

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

25For he supposed his brethren would understand that God through his hand would give them salvation; but they understood not.

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

26And the next day he showed himself to them as they were contending, and urged them to peace, saying, Ye are brethren; why do ye 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 was wronging his neighbor thrust him away, saying, "Who made thee 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

28Dost thou mean to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday?"

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

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

30And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai an angel in the flaming fire of a bush.

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

31And Moses seeing it wondered at the sight; and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came [to him],

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

32saying, "I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob." And Moses trembled and durst not behold.

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

33And the Lord said to him, "Loose the sandals from thy feet; for the place where thou standest 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 oppression of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them; and now, come, I will send thee into Egypt."

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

35This Moses, whom they denied, saying, "Who made thee a ruler and a judge?" this very man did God send both as a ruler and a redeemer with 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 very man brought them out, working wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

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

37This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, "A prophet will God raise up to you from among your brethren, as he raised up me."

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

38This is he that was in the assembly in the wilderness with the anger who spake to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the living oracles 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 thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back into 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 who shall go before us; for as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him."

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

41And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

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

42But God turned away, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the Prophets, "Did ye offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices for 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

43And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of the god Rephan, the figures which ye made to worship them; and 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

44Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded that he should 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 received and brought in with Joshua, at their taking possession of the gentiles whom God drove out from before our fathers, until 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 before God, and asked that he might 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

48Yet the Most High dwelleth not in [temples] made with hands; as saith the prophet,

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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 is my footstool. What house will ye build for me? saith 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 hands make all these things?"

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

51Stiffnecked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears! ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do ye.

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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? And they slew those who foretold the coming of the righteous one, of whom ye have now become the 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

53ye who received the Law as ordained through 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

54But when they heard these things, their hearts were filled with rage, and they gnashed their teeth at him.

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

55But, being full of the Holy Spirit, he looked up earnestly 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, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

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

57And they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;

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

58and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down 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

59and they stoned Stephen, making supplication, and 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

60And kneeling down he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And saying this, he fell asleep.

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