Acts 7:23
“And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.”
And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
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Related Verses
“And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,”
“And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.”
“And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?”
“When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.”
“For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.”