Acts 7:29

"Alarmed at this question, Moses fled from the country and went to live in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'

30"But at the end of forty years there appeared to him in the Desert of Mount Sinai an angel in the middle of 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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