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Luke 20:37

Even Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

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ASV

But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the place concerning the Bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

KJV

Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

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23 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ὅτιhotiforG3754 →
δὲdehoweverG1161 →
ἐγείρονταιegeirontaiare raisedG1453 →
οἱhoitheG3588 →
νεκροί,nekroidead,G3498 →
καὶkaievenG2532 →
ΜωϋσῆςMōusēsMosesG3475 →
ἐμήνυσενemēnusenshowedG3377 →
ἐπὶepiatG1909 →
τῆςtēstheG3588 →
βάτουbatoubushG942 →
ὡςhōswhenG5613 →
λέγειlegeihe namesG3004 →
κύριονkurion[the] LordG2962 →
τὸνtontheG3588 →
θεὸνtheonGodG2316 →
ἈβραὰμAbraamof AbrahamG11 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
θεὸνtheonGodG2316 →
ἸσαὰκIsaakof IsaacG2464 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
θεὸνtheonGodG2316 →
Ἰακώβ.Iakōbof Jacob.’G2384 →

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Exodus 3:6Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.Exodus 3:2There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.Exodus 3:2–6There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.Mark 12:26–27But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?Mark 12:26But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?Acts 7:30–32After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.Matthew 22:3–33He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.Genesis 28:13And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.Deuteronomy 33:16with the choice gifts of the land and everything in it, and with the favor of Him who dwelt in the burning bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph and crown the brow of the prince of his brothers.Genesis 32:9Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’Genesis 28:21so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.Exodus 3:15God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.Acts 7:30After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.Hebrews 11:16Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

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