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Acts 7:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son. "
Acts 7:21
Verse in Context
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19 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.
20 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome to God. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.
21 When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.
22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
23 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
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Acts 7:1
"The high priest said, “Are these things so?”"
Acts 7:2
"He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,"
Acts 7:3
"and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’"
Acts 7:4
"Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land where you are now living."
Acts 7:5
"He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child."
Acts 7:6
"God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years."
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