Acts 7:23
21 When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.
22 So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
24 And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.
25 He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
- KJV
- And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
- WEB
- But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
- ASV
- But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
- DARBY
- And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;
- BLB
- Now when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.
- ÅB
- Men da han var blitt førti år gammel, fikk han i sinne å se til sine brødre, Israels barn,
- OTB
- «Da han var førti år gammel, kom det i hans hjerte å besøke sine brødre, israelittene.
- B1930
- Men da han var blitt firti år gammel, fikk han i sinne å se til sine brødre, Israels barn,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 2:11–12
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
Read in contextPhilippians 2:12–13
Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
Read in contextProverbs 21:1
The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
Read in contextHebrews 11:24–26
By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.
Read in contextRevelation 17:17
For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by uniting to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.
Read in contextJames 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
Read in contextEzra 7:27
Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,
Read in contextExodus 35:29
So all the men and women of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.
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