“But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers,The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” the children of Israel.”
— WEB
Acts 7:23
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“And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.”
— KJV
“But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.”
— ASV
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Commentary
In Act 7:23, Act 7:30, Act 7:36, the life of Moses is represented as embracing three periods, of forty years each; the Jewish writers say the same; and though this is not expressly stated in the Old Testament, his age at death, one hundred twenty years (Deu 34:7), agrees with it. it came into his heart to visit his brethren--his heart yearning with love to them as God's chosen people, and heaving with the consciousness of a divine vocation to set them free.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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