Egypt

Scripture references

• Genesis 12:10

  There was a famine in the country, and Abram went down to Egypt to stay there for a time...

• Genesis 37:28

  They sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver, and these men took Joseph to Egypt.

• Genesis 46:6

  Taking their livestock and all that they had acquired in Canaan, they arrived in Egypt -- Jacob and all his offspring.

• Genesis 50:26

  Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten; he was embalmed and laid in a coffin in Egypt.

• Exodus 1:1

  These are the names of the Israelites who went with Jacob to Egypt, each of them went with his family:

• Exodus 1:8

  Then there came to power in Egypt a new king who had never heard of Joseph.

• Exodus 1:15

  The king of Egypt then spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was called Shiphrah, and the other Puah.

• Exodus 2:10

  When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter who treated him like a son; she named him Moses 'because', she said, 'I drew him out of the water.'

• Exodus 2:15

  When Pharaoh heard of the matter, he tried to put Moses to death, but Moses fled from Pharaoh. He went into Midianite territory and sat down beside a well.

• Exodus 2:23

  During this long period the king of Egypt died. The Israelites, groaning in their slavery, cried out for help and from the depths of their slavery their cry came up to God.

• Exodus 3:7

  Yahweh then said, 'I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying for help on account of their taskmasters. Yes, I am well aware of their sufferings.

• Exodus 3:10

  So now I am sending you to Pharaoh, for you to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.'

• Exodus 3:17

  and has said: I shall bring you out of the misery of Egypt to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a country flowing with milk and honey."

• Exodus 4:19

  Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, 'Go, return to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.'

• Exodus 4:20

  So Moses took his wife and his son and, putting them on a donkey, started back for Egypt; and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

• Exodus 4:21

  Yahweh said to Moses, 'Think of the wonders I have given you power to perform, once you are back in Egypt! You are to perform them before Pharaoh, but I myself shall make him obstinate, and he will not let the people go.

• Exodus 5:4

  The king of Egypt said to them, 'Moses and Aaron, what do you mean by distracting the people from their work? Get back to your forced labour.'

• Exodus 5:12

  So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble for their straw.

• Exodus 11:1

  Yahweh then said to Moses, 'I shall inflict one more plague on Pharaoh and Egypt, after which he will let you go away. When he lets you go, he will actually drive you out!

• Exodus 11:4

  Moses then said, 'Yahweh says this, "At midnight I shall pass through Egypt,

• Exodus 11:6

  And throughout Egypt there will be great wailing, such as never was before, nor will be again.

• Exodus 12:12

  That night, I shall go through Egypt and strike down all the first-born in Egypt, man and beast alike, and shall execute justice on all the gods of Egypt, I, Yahweh!

• Exodus 12:51

  and that same day Yahweh brought the Israelites out of Egypt in their armies.

• Exodus 13:3

  Moses said to the people, 'Remember this day, on which you came out of Egypt, from the place of slave-labour, for by the strength of his hand Yahweh brought you out of it; no leavened bread may be eaten.

• Exodus 13:17

  When Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not let them take the road to the Philistines' territory, although that was the shortest, 'in case', God thought, 'the prospect of fighting makes the people change their minds and turn back to Egypt.'

• Exodus 14:5

  When Pharaoh king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, he and his officials changed their attitude towards the people. 'What have we done,' they said, 'allowing Israel to leave our service?'

• Exodus 14:30

  That day, Yahweh rescued Israel from the clutches of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the sea-shore.

• Exodus 16:1

  Setting out from Elim, the whole community of Israelites entered the desert of Sin, lying between Elim and Sinai -- on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt.

• Exodus 16:3

  and said to them, 'Why did we not die at Yahweh's hand in Egypt, where we used to sit round the flesh pots and could eat to our heart's content! As it is, you have led us into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death!'

• Exodus 16:6

  Moses and Aaron then said to the whole community of Israelites, 'This evening you will know that it was Yahweh who brought you out of Egypt,

• Exodus 16:32

  Moses then said, 'These are Yahweh's orders: Fill a homer with it and preserve it for your descendants, so that they can see the bread on which I fed you in the desert when I brought you out of Egypt.'

• Exodus 18:1

  Jethro, priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, had heard all about what God had done for Moses and for Israel his people: how Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.

• Exodus 19:1

  Three months to the day after leaving Egypt, the Israelites reached the desert of Sinai.

• Exodus 20:2

  'I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt, where you lived as slaves.

• Exodus 22:20

  'You will not molest or oppress aliens, for you yourselves were once aliens in Egypt.

• Exodus 23:15

  You will observe the feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt. No one will appear before me empty-handed.

• Exodus 32:4

  He received what they gave him, melted it down in a mould and with it made the statue of a calf. 'Israel,' the people shouted, 'here is your God who brought you here from Egypt!'

• Exodus 33:1

  Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Leave, move on from here, you and the people whom you have brought here from Egypt, to the country that I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that I would give to their descendants.

• Exodus 34:18

  'You will observe the feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.