Acts 7:23

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

22And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was eminent in his words, and also in his deeds.

24And he saw one of the race of his kindred treated with violence; and he avenged him, and did him justice, and killed the Egyptian who had abused him.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 8:16But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus this solicitude 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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