Acts 7:34

New American Bible - revised edition

I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you to Egypt.’

Cross References

Genesis 11:5

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another.

Genesis 18:21

that I must go down to see whether or not their actions are as bad as the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to find out.

Nehemiah 9:9

You saw the affliction of our ancestors in Egypt, you heard their cry by the Red Sea;

Psalm 105:26

He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron whom he had chosen.

Psalm 106:44

Still God had regard for their affliction when he heard their wailing.

Psalm 144:5

Lord, incline your heavens and come down; touch the mountains and make them smoke.

Exodus 3:14

God replied to Moses: I am who I am. Then he added: This is what you will tell the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.

Exodus 4:31

The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had observed the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they knelt and bowed down.

Isaiah 64:1

As when brushwood is set ablaze, or fire makes the water boil! Then your name would be made known to your enemies and the nations would tremble before you,

Hosea 12:13

Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and Israel served for a wife; for a wife he tended sheep.

Micah 6:4

I brought you up from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery I ransomed you; And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Numbers 11:17

I will come down and speak with you there. I will also take some of the spirit that is on you and will confer it on them, that they may share the burden of the people with you. You will then not have to bear it by yourself.

John 3:13

No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.

John 6:38

because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

Judges 2:18

When the Lord raised up judges for them, he would be with the judge and save them from the power of their enemies as long as the judge lived. The Lord would change his mind when they groaned in their affliction under their oppressors.