Acts 7:23

American Standard Version

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

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Acts 7:23 in other translations

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

Acts 7:23 · World English Bible

Acts 7:23 in context

  1. 21and when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
  2. 22And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and works.
  3. 23But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
  4. 24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian:
  5. 25and he supposed that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not.