Acts 7:28
26 The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’
27 But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?
Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
29 At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
30 After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
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
- Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
- KJV
- Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
- WEB
- Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
- ASV
- Wouldest thou kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?
- DARBY
- Dost *thou* wish to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?
- BLB
- Do you want to kill me the same way you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
- ÅB
- Vil du kanskje slå meg ihjel, som du igår slo ihjel egypteren?
- OTB
- Planlegger du å drepe meg som du gjorde med egypteren i går?’
- B1930
- Vil du kanskje slå mig ihjel, som du igår slo ihjel egypteren?