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The Escape to Egypt
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “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.”
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So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,
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where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
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The Return to Nazareth
After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt
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Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome
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“Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
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and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt. So Pharaoh made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace.
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“Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.
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When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our forefathers on their first visit.
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Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died.
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“As the time drew near for God to fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased.
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Then ‘a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.’
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Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
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He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian.
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Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
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I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
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He led them out of Egypt and performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and for forty years in the wilderness.
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“But our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
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They told Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!’
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The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors; he made the people prosper during their stay in Egypt; with mighty power he led them out of that country;
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“Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness some time ago?”
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Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
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It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.
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By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.
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He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.
