• Acts 7:30
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures

    • 30 Καὶ And πληρωθέντων having been fulfilled ἐτῶν of years τεσσεράκοντα forty ὤφθη he became seen αὐτῷ to him ἐν in τῇ the ἐρήμῳ desolate [place] τοῦ of the ὄρους Mount Σινὰ Sinai ἄγγελος angel ἐν in φλογὶ flame πυρὸς of fire βάτου· of thornbush;

  • Acts 7:30
    King James Version

    • 30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

  • Acts Study Notes—Chapter 7
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

    • 7:30

      40 years: The Hebrew Scriptures do not explicitly state how many years Moses stayed in Midian. But here Stephen reveals facts of Jewish history not previously recorded in the Scriptures. He states that Moses was 40 years of age when he fled to Midian (Ex 2:11; Ac 7:23) and that he stayed there until an additional 40 years had passed or were near completion. So the period referred to here apparently runs from 1553 to 1513 B.C.E. Stephen’s account agrees with the statement that Moses was 80 years old when he spoke to Pharaoh (Ex 7:7) and led the people of Israel out of Egypt. It also harmonizes with the statement that Moses was 120 years old when he died after spending 40 years in the wilderness.​—De 34:7; Ac 7:36.

      an angel: Stephen is here referring to the account at Ex 3:2, where the original Hebrew text says “Jehovah’s angel.” Most Greek manuscripts read “an angel” here, but a few manuscripts and a few ancient translations into other languages have a reading that can be rendered “an angel of [the] Lord [or, “of Jehovah”].” A number of translations of the Christian Greek Scriptures into Hebrew (referred to as J7, 8, 10-12, 14-17, 28 in App. C4) use the Tetragrammaton here and read “Jehovah’s angel.”