21And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
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By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. …
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-29)Stephen here goes on to relate, I. The wonderful increase of the people of Israel in Egypt; it was by a wonder of providence that in a little time they advanced from a family into a nation. 1. It was when the time of the promise drew nigh —the time when they were to be formed into a people. During the first two hundred and fifteen years after the promise made to Abraham, the children of the covena…
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