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Turned back in the day of battle. the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ And
10 They did not keep the covenant of God; Moses trembled and dared not look. ‘Then
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They refused to walk in His law, the LORD said to him, “Take your sandals off
11 And forgot His works your feet, for the place where you stand is holy
And His wonders that He had ground. I have surely seen the oppression of
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shown them. My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their
groaning and have come down to deliver them.
Proverbs 19:20–21 And now come, I will send you to Egypt.” ’
20 35 “This Moses whom they rejected, saying,
Listen to counsel and receive
instruction, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one
That you may be wise in your latter God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand
days. of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36 He brought them out, after he had shown won-
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There are many plans in a man’s heart, ders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the
Nevertheless the LORD’s counsel—that Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
will stand. 37 “This is that Moses who said to the chil-
dren of Israel, ‘The LORD your God will raise
Acts 7:22–43
up for you a Prophet like me from your
22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of brethren. Him you shall hear.’
the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and 38 “This is he who was in the congregation in
deeds. the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to
23 “Now when he was forty years old, it came him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the
into his heart to visit his brethren, the children one who received the living oracles to give to
of Israel. And seeing one of them suffer us, whom our fathers would not obey, but
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wrong, he defended and avenged him who was rejected. And in their hearts they turned back
to Egypt, saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods to
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go before us; as for this Moses who brought
us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know
7:23 he was forty years old. Moses’ life may what has become of him.’ And they made a
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be divided into three 40-year periods.The first calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the
40 years encompassed his birth and life in idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own
Pharaoh’s court;the second,his exile in Midian hands. Then God turned and gave them up to
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(vv. 29,30); and the third revolved around the worship the host of heaven, as it is written in
events of the Exodus and the years of Israel’s the book of the Prophets:
wilderness wandering (v. 36).
‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals
and sacrifices during forty years in
the wilderness,
oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.
25 For he supposed that his brethren would O house of Israel?
43 You also took up the tabernacle of
have understood that God would deliver them
by his hand, but they did not understand. Moloch,
26 And the next day he appeared to two of them And the star of your god Remphan,
as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile Images which you made to worship;
them, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren; why do And I will carry you away beyond
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you wrong one another?’ But he who did his Babylon.’
neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying,
‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
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tian yesterday?’ Then, at this saying, Moses 7:43 Babylon. Amos wrote Damascus (Amos
fled and became a dweller in the land of 5:27), while Stephen said Babylon. Amos was
Midian, where he had two sons. prophesying the captivity of the northern
30 “And when forty years had passed, an kingdom in Assyria, a deportation beyond
Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame Damascus. Later, the southern kingdom was
of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Si- taken captive to Babylon. Stephen, inspired to
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nai. When Moses saw it, he marveled at the do so, extended the prophecy to embrace the
sight; and as he drew near to observe, the judgment on the whole nation summarizing
their idolatrous history and its results.
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voice of the Lord came to him, saying, ‘Iam
the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham,
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