Acts 7:19

This one, encompassing our kindred, afflicted our fathers, so that they would expose their infants, lest they be kept alive.

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In The King James Version

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

In Context

18even until another king, who did not know Joseph, rose up in Egypt.

20In the same time, Moses was born. And he was in the grace of God, and he was nourished for three months in the house of his father.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:9And he said to his people: “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are many, and they are stronger than we are.

Psalms 105:25And they murmured in their tabernacles. They did not heed the voice of the Lord.

Revelation 12:4And his tail drew down a third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman, who was about to give birth, so that, when she had brought forth, he might devour her son.

Matthew Henry on Acts 7:18-30

Stephen's Address. 17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. 19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. 20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: 21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and… Read the whole commentary →

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