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Acts 7:23

When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

In Context

22So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.

24And 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.

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Cross References

Exodus 4:18Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.

Exodus 35:29So 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.

2 Chronicles 30:12Moreover, the power of God was on the people in Judah to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and his officials according to the word of the LORD.

Ezra 1:5So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.

Proverbs 21:1The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.

2 Corinthians 8:16But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you.

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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