23 During that long period,(A) the king of Egypt died.(B) The Israelites groaned in their slavery(C) and cried out, and their cry(D) for help because of their slavery went up to God.

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Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers(A) who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries(B) of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.(C)

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20 Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom(A) and Gomorrah is so great(B) and their sin so grievous(C) 21 that I will go down(D) and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”

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But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer,(A) subjecting us to harsh labor.(B) Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and the Lord heard our voice(C) and saw(D) our misery,(E) toil and oppression.(F)

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The Lord said, “I have indeed seen(A) the misery(B) of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned(C) about their suffering.(D) So I have come down(E) to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land,(F) a land flowing with milk and honey(G)—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites(H) and Jebusites.(I) And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing(J) them.

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30 “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

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In my distress(A) I called to the Lord;(B)
    I cried to my God for help.
From his temple he heard my voice;(C)
    my cry came(D) before him, into his ears.

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“Because the poor are plundered(A) and the needy groan,(B)
    I will now arise,(C)” says the Lord.
    “I will protect them(D) from those who malign them.”

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22 “Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.(A) 23 If you do and they cry out(B) to me, I will certainly hear their cry.(C) 24 My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.(D)

25 “If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.(E) 26 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge,(F) return it by sunset, 27 because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in?(G) When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.(H)

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“You saw the suffering of our ancestors in Egypt;(A) you heard their cry at the Red Sea.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:9 Or the Sea of Reeds

11 The angel of the Lord(A) also said to her:

“You are now pregnant
    and you will give birth to a son.(B)
You shall name him(C) Ishmael,[a](D)
    for the Lord has heard of your misery.(E)

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  1. Genesis 16:11 Ishmael means God hears.

10 The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.(A)

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23 Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel(A) of the Lord struck him down,(B) and he was eaten by worms and died.

24 But the word of God(C) continued to spread and flourish.(D)

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The Return to Nazareth

19 After Herod died, an angel(A) of the Lord appeared in a dream(B) to Joseph in Egypt 20 and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”(C)

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20 It will be a sign and witness(A) to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior(B) and defender, and he will rescue(C) them.

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“I removed the burden(A) from their shoulders;(B)
    their hands were set free from the basket.
In your distress you called(C) and I rescued you,
    I answered(D) you out of a thundercloud;
    I tested you at the waters of Meribah.[a](E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 81:7 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

11 The Lord replied, “When the Egyptians,(A) the Amorites,(B) the Ammonites,(C) the Philistines,(D) 12 the Sidonians, the Amalekites(E) and the Maonites[a](F) oppressed you(G) and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands?

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  1. Judges 10:12 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts Midianites

15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor(A) and are counting on it.(B) Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.(C)

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16 but when we cried out to the Lord, he heard our cry(A) and sent an angel(B) and brought us out of Egypt.(C)

“Now we are here at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.(D)

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19 Then they cried(A) to the Lord in their trouble,
    and he saved them(B) from their distress.
20 He sent out his word(C) and healed them;(D)
    he rescued(E) them from the grave.(F)

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Moses was eighty years old(A) and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.

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19 Now the Lord had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill(A) you are dead.(B)

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The vineyard(A) of the Lord Almighty
    is the nation of Israel,
and the people of Judah
    are the vines he delighted in.
And he looked for justice,(B) but saw bloodshed;
    for righteousness,(C) but heard cries of distress.(D)

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