Acts 7:34

³² Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.

³³ Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

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.

³⁵ This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

³⁶ He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

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
And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
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Psalms 106:44
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
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Exodus 4:31
And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
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Nehemiah 9:9
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
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Exodus 3:14
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
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John 6:38
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
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Exodus 2:23–25
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
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Isaiah 63:8–9
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
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