NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 21

Acts 7:21

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When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.

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Acts 7:21 in context

Acts 7:18–24

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until there arose a different king who didn’t know Joseph.

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The same took advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

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At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome to God. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.

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When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.

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Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

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

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Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.

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