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By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after he was born,^(ao) because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.^(ap)

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter.^(aq)

He chose to be mistreated^(ar) along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

He regarded disgrace^(as) for the sake of Christ^(at) as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.^(au)

By faith he left Egypt,^(av) not fearing the king's anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible.

By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer^(aw) of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.^(ax)

By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.^(ay)

By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days.^(az)

By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.^[d](ba)

And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon,^(bb) Barak,^(bc) Samson^(bd) and Jephthah,^(be) about David^(bf) and Samuel^(bg) and the prophets,

who through faith conquered kingdoms,^(bh) administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,^(bi)

quenched the fury of the flames,^(bj) and escaped the edge of the sword;^(bk) whose weakness was turned to strength;^(bl) and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies.^(bm)

Women received back their dead, raised to life again.^(bn) There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.

Some faced jeers and flogging,^(bo) and even chains and imprisonment.^(bp)

They were put to death by stoning;^[e](bq) they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword.^(br) They went about in sheepskins and goatskins,^(bs) destitute, persecuted and mistreated—

the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves^(bt) and in holes in the ground.

These were all commended^(bu) for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised,^(bv)

since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us^(bw) would they be made perfect.^(bx)