Acts 7:34 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁴ I have surely seen the mistreatment of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you to Egypt.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ Because I have most assuredly seen the abuse and oppression of My people in Egypt and have heard their sighing and groaning, I have come down to rescue them. So, now come! I will send you back to Egypt [as My messenger]. [Exod. 3:1-10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I am come down to deliver them: and now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

Common English Bible

³⁴ “I have clearly seen the oppression my people have experienced in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning. I have come down to rescue them. Come! I am sending you to Egypt”.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ Certainly, I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning. And so, I am coming down to free them. And now, go forth and I will send you into Egypt.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁴ Seeing I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, and I will send thee into Egypt.

Acts 7:34 Cross References

Genesis 11:5

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 18:21

I must go down and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me, and if not, I will know.”

Nehemiah 9:9

“And you saw the distress of our ancestors in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.

Psalm 105:26

He sent his servant Moses and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

Psalm 106:44

Nevertheless, he regarded their distress when he heard their cry.

Psalm 144:5

Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.

Exodus 3:14

God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”

Exodus 4:31

The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had given heed to the Israelites and that he had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.

Isaiah 64:1

O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence—

Hosea 12:13

By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.

Micah 6:4

For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Numbers 11:17

I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people along with you so that you will not bear it all by yourself.

John 3:13

No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

John 6:38

for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

Judges 2:18

Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, for the Lord would be moved to pity by their groaning because of those who persecuted and oppressed them.