Acts 7:21
And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
Acts 7:21 in other translations
| BSB | When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son. |
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| WEB | When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son. |
| ASV | and when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. |
| YLT | and he having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and did rear him to herself for a son; |
| DARBY | And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself to be for a son. |
| BBE | And when he was put out, Pharaoh's daughter took him and kept him as her son. |
| Webster | And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. |
What does Acts 7:21 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 7:20-22
20-22. In which time--of deepest depression. Moses was born--the destined deliverer. exceeding fair--literally, "fair to God" (Margin), or, perhaps, divinely "fair" (see on He 11:23).
Barnes' Notes
And nourished him. Adopted him, and treated him as her son, Ex 2:10. It is implied in this, that he was educated by her. An adopted son in the family of Pharaoh would be favoured with all the advantages which the land could furnish for an education.
(e) "nourished him" Ex 2:10
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 7:17-29
Let us not be discouraged at the slowness of the fulfilling of God's promises. Suffering times often are growing times with the church. God is preparing for his people's deliverance, when their day is darkest, and their distress deepest. Moses was exceeding fair, "fair toward God;" it is the beauty of holiness which is in God's sight of great price. He was wonderfully preserved in his infancy; for God will take…
Acts 7:21 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Acts 7:21
- Hebrews 11:24
By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
- Exodus 2:2-10
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. …
- Deuteronomy 32:26
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
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Context
- Acts 7:20
In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:
- Acts 7:21
And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
- Acts 7:22
And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
Acts 7:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas siendo puesto al peligro, la hija de Faraón le tomó, y le crió como á hijo suyo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais, ayant été exposé, la fille du Pharaon l’emporta, et l’éleva pour elle, afin qu’il soit son fils. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Als er aber ausgesetzt worden war, nahm ihn die Tochter Pharaos zu sich und zog ihn auf, sich zum Sohne. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Exposito autem illo, sustulit eum filia Pharaonis, et nutrivit eum sibi in filium. |