Exodus 2:11

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It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that 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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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Egypt was the land where Moses had been raised in Pharaoh’s household, yet where his fellow Hebrews suffered oppression; there he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. The Nile, Egypt’s central river, frames Moses’ earlier rescue, while Midian was the region east of Egypt to which he later fled after this event.

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Exodus 2:11 mentions Egypt, Midian and Nile.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato