Egypt in the Bible

Meaning: that troubles or oppresses; anguish

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Then, as they had been divinely warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country by a different road. After they had gone, there appeared an angel of the Lord to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt; stay there till I tell you. For Herod is going to search for the child and destroy him."






































































So Moses was educated in all the culture of the Egyptians; he was a strong man in speech and action.





























It was by faith that he left Egypt, not from any fear of the king's wrath; like one who saw the King Invisible, he never flinched.





































where he stayed until the death of Herod. This was to fulfil what the Lord had said by the prophet: I called my Son from Egypt.



So Moses was educated in all the culture of the Egyptians; he was a strong man in speech and action.








































































































Now a famine came over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, attended with great misery, so that our ancestors could not find provender.

























considering obloquy with the messiah to be richer wealth than all Egypt's treasures ??for he had an eye to the Reward.








































After they had gone, there appeared an angel of the Lord to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt; stay there till I tell you. For Herod is going to search for the child and destroy him." So he got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went off to Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. This was to fulfil what the Lord had said by the prophet: I called my Son from Egypt. read more.
Then Herod saw the magicians had trifled with him, and he was furiously angry; he sent and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the neighbourhood who were two years old or under, calculating by the time he had ascertained from the magicians. Then the saying was fulfilled which had been uttered by the prophet Jeremiah: A cry was heard in Rama, weeping and sore lamentation ??Rachel weeping for her children, and inconsolable because they are no more. But when Herod died, there appeared an angel of the Lord in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."















and their corpses will lie in the streets of that great City whose mystical name is Sodom and Egypt ??where their Lord also was crucified.






What God said was this: 'His offspring will sojourn in a foreign land, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

My point is this: the Law which arose four hundred and thirty years later does not repeal a will previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the Promise.