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'People' in the Bible

All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,

Verse ConceptsSeventySeventies

He said to his people, "Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are!

Verse ConceptsMany In Israel

So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

Verse ConceptsGod Doing GoodPeople Multiplying

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live."

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofCommands, in OTKept Alive By MenDeath Of All MalesKilling IsraelitesThe King's Orders

In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.

Verse ConceptsVisitingGrowing UpForced Labourempathymanhood

The Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfHearingReceptivenessSensitivityTaskmastersGod, All knowingGod Seeing Their AfflictionCries Of Distress To GodGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Sending His SonAfflictions

"I will grant this people favor with the Egyptians, so that when you depart you will not leave empty-handed.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerHuman FavourEmpty HandedFavorbridges

He will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were his God.

Verse ConceptsSpokesmenMen As GodsSpeaking With The Mouth

The Lord said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillHardened HeartsGod Hardening PeopleHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPower, HumanOther Miracles

Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people,

Verse ConceptsSigns From GodTelling Of God

and the people believed. When they heard that the Lord had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.

Verse ConceptsBowingAttitudes, in prayerWorship, Reasons ForBowing Heads Before GodBelieving In GodGod Paid Attention To ThemOthers Believing In GodWorshipping God

Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Release my people so that they may hold a pilgrim feast to me in the desert.'"

Verse ConceptsFeastsAaron, Moses SpokespersonA Feast In The WildernessFestivals Observed

The king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!"

Verse ConceptsDoing One's Workdistractions

Pharaoh was thinking, "The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor."

Verse ConceptsMany In Israel

That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people:

Verse ConceptsOverseersTaskmasters

"You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types of

So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, "Thus says Pharaoh: 'I am not giving you straw.

Verse ConceptsHeraldTaskmasters

So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

Verse ConceptsSeeking For Concrete Things

No straw is given to your servants, but we are told, 'Make bricks!' Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people."

Verse ConceptsWronging Other People

Moses returned to the Lord, and said, "Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?

Verse ConceptsGod Sending ProphetsGod TroublingWhy Does God Do This?

From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have certainly not rescued them!"

Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing Evil

I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians.

Verse ConceptsAssurance, basis ofGod, The LordRelationshipsUnity, Of God's PeopleRemoving BurdensYou Will Know I Am The LordI Will Be Their GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandGod's Hands In OppositionEarthly ArmiesGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

The Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hard; he refuses to release the people.

Verse ConceptsCorrupted ConsciencesObstinate Individuals

Tell him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say, "Release my people, that they may serve me in the desert!" But until now you have not listened.

Verse ConceptsA Feast In The WildernessWorshipping God

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Thus says the Lord: "Release my people in order that they may serve me!

Verse ConceptsPreaching, Content OfServanthood, And Worship Of GodWorshipping God

The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, in your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading troughs.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsBakingPalacesBedsMany CreaturesHouses Under AttackPots For Cooking And EatingPrivate Rooms

Frogs will come up against you, your people, and all your servants."'"

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray to the Lord that he may take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will release the people that they may sacrifice to the Lord."

Verse ConceptsKings SummoningPray For UsPraying For SinnersTaking Animals

Moses said to Pharaoh, "You may have the honor over me -- when shall I pray for you, your servants, and your people, for the frogs to be removed from you and your houses, so that they will be left only in the Nile?"

Verse ConceptsWhen?

The frogs will depart from you, your houses, your servants, and your people; they will be left only in the Nile."

Verse ConceptsLeavingHouses Under Attack

They did so; Aaron extended his hand with his staff, he struck the dust of the ground, and it became gnats on people and on animals. All the dust of the ground became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of Moses And AaronStretching OutFliesBoth Men And Animals AffectedThings Changed

When the magicians attempted to bring forth gnats by their secret arts, they could not. So there were gnats on people and on animals.

Verse ConceptsSorcery And MagicFliesBoth Men And Animals AffectedUnable To Do Other Thingsmagic

The Lord said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning and position yourself before Pharaoh as he goes out to the water, and tell him, 'Thus says the Lord, "Release my people that they may serve me!

Verse ConceptsConfrontationMorningRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyWorshipping God

If you do not release my people, then I am going to send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on.

Verse ConceptsFliesbugs

But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of this land.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsFliesGod DifferentiatingI Am The Lord

I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow."'"

Verse ConceptsNationalismSeparation From Evil PeopleGod's Action Tomorrowtomorrowdivision

Moses said, "I am going to go out from you and pray to the Lord, and the swarms of flies will go away from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal falsely again by not releasing the people to sacrifice to the Lord."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitGod's Action TomorrowThose Who Deceived

and the Lord did as Moses asked -- he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained!

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of Moses And AaronFliesResidueTaking AnimalsGod Answered Prayerbugs

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not release the people.

Verse ConceptsObstinate Individuals

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, "Release my people that they may serve me!

Verse ConceptsWorshipping GodProblem People

Pharaoh sent representatives to investigate, and indeed, not even one of the livestock of Israel had died. But Pharaoh's heart remained hard, and he did not release the people.

Verse ConceptsHardness Of HeartNot DyingObstinate Individuals

It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt and will cause boils to break out and fester on both people and animals in all the land of Egypt."

Verse ConceptsdiseasesBoils Or UlcersSootBoth Men And Animals Affected

So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.

Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfSootFurnacesBoth Men And Animals AffectedAbscess

The Lord said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: "Release my people so that they may serve me!

Verse ConceptsMorningThose Who Rose EarlyWorshipping GodEarly Rising

For this time I will send all my plagues on your very self and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Verse ConceptsNo One Is Like GodKnowing God's Character

For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Will Kill The Peoples

You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.

Verse ConceptsAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingSeeking Honour

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Extend your hand toward the sky that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals, and on everything that grows in the field in the land of Egypt."

Verse ConceptsStretching OutBoth Men And Animals Affected

The hail struck everything in the open fields, both people and animals, throughout all the land of Egypt. The hail struck everything that grows in the field, and it broke all the trees of the field to pieces.

Verse ConceptsBoth Men And Animals AffectedHarming Trees

So Pharaoh sent and summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned this time! The Lord is righteous, and I and my people are guilty.

Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentanceGuilty ConsciencesGod, Righteousness OfPunishment, By GodAcknowledge, SinKings SummoningWe Have Sinned

So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him, "Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: 'How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!

Verse ConceptsHumilityBefore People ActWorshipping GodHumbling Oneself

But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

Verse ConceptsInsectsLocustsGod's Action Tomorrow

Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a menace to us? Release the people so that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not know that Egypt is destroyed?"

Verse ConceptsMan TrappingBefore People ActWorshipping God

Instruct the people that each man and each woman is to request from his or her neighbor items of silver and gold."

Verse ConceptsBorrowing, Examples OfGold

(Now the Lord granted the people favor with the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, respected by Pharaoh's servants and by the Egyptian people.)

Verse ConceptsHuman Favour

But against any of the Israelites not even a dog will bark against either people or animals, so that you may know that the Lord distinguishes between Egypt and Israel.'

Verse ConceptsdogsPlaguesBarking And HowlingGod DifferentiatingBoth Men And Animals AffectedKnowing God's Characterisrael

All these your servants will come down to me and bow down to me, saying, 'Go, you and all the people who follow you,' and after that I will go out." Then Moses went out from Pharaoh in great anger.

Verse ConceptsBowingAnger, HumanHeatAnger, Justified ExamplesAnger Of Man, CauseLeaving EgyptNamed People Angry With Others

If any household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next-door neighbor are to take a lamb according to the number of people -- you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.

Verse ConceptsSmallnessEating Before GodAccording To PeopleFew PeopleNeighbours

then you will say, 'It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck Egypt and delivered our households.'" The people bowed down low to the ground,

Verse ConceptsBowingProperty, HousesPassing OverReverence, And ObedienceBowing Heads Before GodGod KillingRegulations For PassoverWorshipping GodGod Killed The Peoples

Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, "Get up, get out from among my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, serve the Lord as you have requested!

Verse ConceptsDuring One NightKings SummoningWorship God!

The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying, "We are all dead!"

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceHurrying Others On

So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, with their kneading troughs bound up in their clothing on their shoulders.

Verse ConceptsDoughShouldersJoining ThingsKneading DoughPots For Cooking And Eating

The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they gave them whatever they wanted, and so they plundered Egypt.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of WarFavorlent

Moses said to the people, "Remember this day on which you came out from Egypt, from the place where you were enslaved, for the Lord brought you out of there with a mighty hand -- and no bread made with yeast may be eaten.

Verse ConceptsCelebrationsHand Of GodHistoryYeastStrength Of GodLeaving EgyptGroups Of Slavesslavery

When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. That is why I am sacrificing to the Lord the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.'

Verse ConceptsStubbornness, Consequences OfDeath Of The FirstbornGod KillingMale AnimalsBoth Men And Animals KilledHindering God's WorkGod Killed The PeoplesRegulating Sacrifices

When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said, "Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war."

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfPeople Changing Their MindsReturning to the oldPrinciples Of WarMind BattlesStress And Hard Times

So God brought the people around by the way of the desert to the Red Sea, and the Israelites went up from the land of Egypt prepared for battle.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalComing To The Red SeaGod Led Them Through The WildernessEarthly Armies

He did not remove the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.

Verse ConceptsObelisksDuring The Day

When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and the king and his servants said, "What in the world have we done? For we have released the people of Israel from serving us!"

Verse ConceptsPeople Changing Their MindsIsrael FleeingTelling Of Movements

Moses said to the people, "Do not fear! Stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord that he will provide for you today; for the Egyptians that you see today you will never, ever see again.

Verse ConceptsBeing AfraidDeliverance, Means OfStillnessNot Seeing PeopleDo Not Fear For God Will Helpfearless

Fear and dread will fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they will be as still as stone until your people pass by, O Lord, until the people whom you have bought pass by.

Verse ConceptsMarketsPassing ThroughPurchasingTypes Of ChristArm Of GodMotionlessnessStaying PutPeople As Rocksgreatnessterrorism

Then the Lord said to Moses, "I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they will walk in my law or not?

Verse ConceptsProving, Through TestingResentment, Against GodTestingDaily DutyOnce A Day

"This is what the Lord has commanded: 'Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.'"

Verse ConceptsTentsGathering FoodAccording To People

On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they found nothing.

Verse ConceptsGathering FoodNot Finding

So the people rested on the seventh day.

Verse ConceptsSabbaths Instituted

The whole community of the Israelites traveled on their journey from the Desert of Sin according to the Lord's instruction, and they pitched camp in Rephidim. Now there was no water for the people to drink.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTTravelParticular JourneysNo Water For People

So the people contended with Moses, and they said, "Give us water to drink!" Moses said to them, "Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the Lord?"

Verse ConceptsTestingDisputesTesting GodGiving Food And DrinkProblem PeopleComplaining

But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said, "Why in the world did you bring us up out of Egypt -- to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?"

Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersFaultsComplaintsMiracles, Responses ToResentment, Against GodSelf PityWaterDiscontentGrumbling At PeopleComplaining

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, "What will I do with this people? -- a little more and they will stone me!"

Verse ConceptsSelf PityCrying To GodFear Of Stoning

The Lord said to Moses, "Go over before the people; take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile and go.

Verse ConceptsThe Elders Gathered

I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink." And Moses did so in plain view of the elders of Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod Providing WaterMiracles, Nature OfMiracles Of Moses And AaronTypes Of ChristSplitting RocksStriking RocksProvision From Rocks

Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsOccupationsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Jethro said, "Blessed be the Lord who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt, and from the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from the Egyptians' control!

Verse ConceptsPraise, Reasons ForRescueBless The Lord!

On the next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.

Verse ConceptsMoses, Significance OfSittingStandingSitting To TeachPeople Involved In JudgementFrom Morning Till Evening

When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, "What is this that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting by yourself, and all the people stand around you from morning until evening?"

Verse ConceptsActing AloneFrom Morning Till EveningWhat Do You Do?

Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

You will surely wear out, both you and these people who are with you, for this is too heavy a burden for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.

Verse ConceptsPeople Wearing OutImpossible For PeopleNot AloneHard Tasks

Now listen to me, I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, and you bring their disputes to God;

Verse ConceptsWise CouncelPay Attention To People!

They will judge the people under normal circumstances, and every difficult case they will bring to you, but every small case they themselves will judge, so that you may make it easier for yourself, and they will bear the burden with you.

Verse ConceptsSharing BurdensGreat ThingsUnimportant Things

If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied."

Verse ConceptsStanding Firm

Moses chose capable men from all Israel, and he made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Verse ConceptsBeing OrganizedTen PeopleFiftiesOne HundredA Thousand PeopleChoosing PeopleSkilled PeopleLeadersLeadership Qualitiesinvestingorganizationgroups

They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.

Verse ConceptsPeople Involved In JudgementHard TasksUnimportant ThingsStrength In Hard Times

Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, "Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel:

Verse ConceptsJacob, The PatriarchGoing Up Mountains

and all the people answered together, "All that the Lord has commanded we will do!" So Moses brought the words of the people back to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodFireResponseTheocracyWe Obey

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