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Exodus 2:3
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Exodus 2:3
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3 When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes[a] and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the (A)reeds by the river bank.
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- Exodus 2:3 Hebrew papyrus reeds
Exodus 2:3
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Exodus 2:3
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3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus(A) basket[a] for him and coated it with tar and pitch.(B) Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds(C) along the bank of the Nile.
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- Exodus 2:3 The Hebrew can also mean ark, as in Gen. 6:14.
Acts 7:19
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Acts 7:19
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19 (A)He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, (B)so that they would not be kept alive.
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Acts 7:19
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Acts 7:19
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19 He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.(A)
Exodus 1:22
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Exodus 1:22
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22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, (A)“Every son that is born to the Hebrews[a] you shall cast into (B)the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”
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- Exodus 1:22 Samaritan, Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew lacks to the Hebrews
Exodus 1:22
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Exodus 1:22
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22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile,(A) but let every girl live.”(B)
Genesis 6:14
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Genesis 6:14
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14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood.[a] Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
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- Genesis 6:14 An unknown kind of tree; transliterated from Hebrew
Genesis 6:14
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Genesis 6:14
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14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[a] wood;(A) make rooms in it and coat it with pitch(B) inside and out.
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- Genesis 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
Matthew 2:16
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Matthew 2:16
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Herod Kills the Children
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.
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Matthew 2:16
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Matthew 2:16
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16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.
Matthew 2:13
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Matthew 2:13
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The Flight to Egypt
13 Now when they had departed, behold, (A)an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”
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Matthew 2:13
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Matthew 2:13
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The Escape to Egypt
13 When they had gone, an angel(A) of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.(B) “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”(C)
Isaiah 18:2
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Isaiah 18:2
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2 which (A)sends ambassadors by the sea,
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation (B)tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation (C)mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.
Genesis 11:3
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Genesis 11:3
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3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, (A)and bitumen for mortar.
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Genesis 11:3
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Genesis 11:3
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3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks(A) and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone,(B) and tar(C) for mortar.
Isaiah 19:6
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Isaiah 19:6
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6 and its canals will become foul,
and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up,
reeds and rushes will rot away.
Isaiah 19:6
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Isaiah 19:6
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Genesis 14:10
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Genesis 14:10
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10 Now the Valley of Siddim was full of (A)bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled (B)to the hill country.
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Genesis 14:10
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Genesis 14:10
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10 Now the Valley of Siddim(A) was full of tar(B) pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah(C) fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.(D)
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