Acts 7:34

³² ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.

³³ Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’

³⁵ This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

³⁶ He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.

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: I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
KJV: I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
WEB: I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’
ASV: I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I am come down to deliver them: and now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
DARBY: I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.
BLB: I have surely seen the oppression of My people in Egypt, and I heard their groans, and I came down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’

ÅB: Jeg har grant sett hvor mitt folk blir mishandlet i Egypt, og deres sukk har jeg hørt, og jeg er steget ned for å utfri dem. Og nå, kom, la meg sende deg til Egypt!
OTB: Jeg har virkelig sett mitt folks undertrykkelse i Egypt, og jeg har hørt deres sukk. Jeg har kommet ned for å befri dem. Nå kom, jeg vil sende deg tilbake til Egypt.’
B1930: Jeg har grant sett hvor mitt folk blir mishandlet i Egypten, og deres sukk har jeg hørt, og jeg er steget ned for å utfri dem. Og nu, kom, la mig sende dig til Egypten!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Exodus 3:7–10
The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
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Psalms 106:44
Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.
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Exodus 4:31
and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
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Nehemiah 9:9
You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.
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Exodus 3:14
God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
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John 6:38
For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
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Exodus 2:23–25
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
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Isaiah 63:8–9
For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.
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