29Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
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Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, …
And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life. …
And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. …
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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