Acts 7:23
Good News Translation
"When Moses was forty years old, he decided to find out how his fellow Israelites were being treated.

New Revised Standard Version
“When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his relatives, the Israelites.

Contemporary English Version
When Moses was 40 years old, he wanted to help the Israelites because they were his own people.

New American Bible
“When he was forty years old, he decided to visit his kinsfolk, the Israelites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.

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And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.

when.

Exodus 2:11,12 In those days, after Moses was grown up, he went out to his brethren: and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking one of the Hebrews, his brethren. . . .

Hebrews 11:24-26 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the son of Pharao's daughter: . . .

it came.

Exodus 35:21,29 Offered firstfruits to the Lord with a most ready and devout mind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the testimony. Whatever was necessary to the service and to the holy vestments, . . .

1 Chronicles 29:17-19 I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity, wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings. . . .

2 Chronicles 30:12 But the hand of God was in Juda, to give them one heart to do the word of the Lord, according to the commandment of the king, and of the princes.

Ezra 1:1,5 In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and in writing also, saying: . . .

Ezra 7:27 Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers, who hath put this in the king's heart, to glorify the house of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem,

Proverbs 21:1 As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever he will, he shall turn it.

2 Corinthians 8:16 And thanks be to God, who hath given the same carefulness for you in the heart of Titus.

Philippians 2:12,13 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation. . . .

James 1:17 Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.

Revelation 17:17 For God hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth him: that they give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God be fulfilled.

to.

Acts 15:36 And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas: Let us return and visit our brethren in all the cities wherein we have preached the word of the Lord, to see how they do.

Exodus 4:18 Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said to him; I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace.

Context
Stephen's Address to the Sanhedrin
22And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians: and he was mighty in his words and in his deeds. 23And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. 24And when he had seen one of them suffer wrong, he defended him: and striking the Egyptian, he avenged him who suffered the injury.…
Cross References
Exodus 2:11
In those days, after Moses was grown up, he went out to his brethren: and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking one of the Hebrews, his brethren.

Exodus 7:7
And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharao.

Acts 7:24
And when he had seen one of them suffer wrong, he defended him: and striking the Egyptian, he avenged him who suffered the injury.

Hebrews 11:24
By faith Moses, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the son of Pharao's daughter:

Acts 7:22
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