22 And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in his words and deeds.

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.

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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