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Acts 7:23-25
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23 “But when he was forty years old,[a] it entered in his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel. 24 And when he[b] saw one of them being unjustly harmed, he defended him[c] and avenged[d] the one who had been oppressed by[e] striking down the Egyptian. 25 And he thought his[f] brothers would understand that God was granting deliverance to them by his hand, but they did not understand.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:23 Literally “a period of time of forty years was fulfilled for him”
  2. Acts 7:24 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
  3. Acts 7:24 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Acts 7:24 Literally “produced vengeance for”
  5. Acts 7:24 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“striking down”) which is understood as means
  6. Acts 7:25 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
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