Acts 7:29

At these words Moses took to flight, and became an exile in Midian; and there he had two sons born to him.

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In The King James Version

Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

In Context

28Do you mean to make away with me as you did yesterday with that Egyptian?’

30Forty years had passed when there appeared to him, in the desert of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.

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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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