Exodus 1:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

If we don't outsmart them, their families will keep growing larger. And if our country goes to war, they could easily fight on the side of our enemies and escape from Egypt.

Cross References

Psalm 10:2

Proud and brutal people hunt down the poor. But let them get caught by their own evil plans!

Psalm 105:25

They served the LORD, and he made the Egyptians plan hateful things against them.

Proverbs 1:11

when they say, “Come on! Let's gang up and kill somebody, just for the fun of it!

Proverbs 16:25

Sometimes what seems right is really a road to death.

Proverbs 21:30

No matter how much you know or what plans you make, you can't defeat the LORD.

Numbers 22:6

They are too powerful for us to defeat, so would you come and place a curse on them? Perhaps then we can drive them out. I know that anyone you bless will be successful, but anyone you curse will fail.

Acts 23:12

The next morning more than forty Jewish men got together and vowed that they would not eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.

Acts 7:19

He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them. He even made them leave their babies outside, so they would die.

1 Samuel 29:4

The Philistine army commanders were angry and shouted: Send David back to the town you gave him. We won't have him going into the battle with us. He could turn and fight against us! Saul would take David back as an officer if David brought him the heads of our soldiers.