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Exodus 2:11

The New Testament’s use of Exodus

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Acts 7:23-29

Moses, grown, going out 'to visit his brothers, the children of Israel,' reproduces 'Moses... went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens.'

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Heb 11:23–31

‘Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing… ill treatment with God's people’ (vv. 24–25) interprets Exod 2:11–15 — Moses casting his lot with the oppressed Hebrews. The narrative is reused and theologized (‘the reproach of Christ’).

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Elsewhere in Exodus 2
Exodus 2:2 2Exodus 2:14 6Exodus 2:15 3Exodus 2:24 2