--- title: "Acts 7:17-38 KJV - \"But when the time of the promise drew...\" | Real Bible Believers" description: "\"But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, Till another\" — Read Acts 7:17-38 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon." image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/acts/7/17-38" --- [ Read](/kjv/acts/7)[ Commentary](/study/acts/7)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/acts/7) Audio ## Acts 7:17-38 in Context (Verses 14–41 KJV) [14 ](/kjv/acts/7/14) Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to *him*, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. [15 ](/kjv/acts/7/15) So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, [16 ](/kjv/acts/7/16) And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor *the father* of Sychem. [17 ](/kjv/acts/7/17) But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, [18 ](/kjv/acts/7/18) Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. [19 ](/kjv/acts/7/19) The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. [20 ](/kjv/acts/7/20) In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months: [21 ](/kjv/acts/7/21) And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. [22 ](/kjv/acts/7/22) And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. [23 ](/kjv/acts/7/23) And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. [24 ](/kjv/acts/7/24) And seeing one *of them* suffer wrong, he defended *him*, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: [25 ](/kjv/acts/7/25) For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not. [26 ](/kjv/acts/7/26) And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another? [27 ](/kjv/acts/7/27) But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? [28 ](/kjv/acts/7/28) Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday? [29 ](/kjv/acts/7/29) Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons. [30 ](/kjv/acts/7/30) 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. [31 ](/kjv/acts/7/31) When Moses saw *it*, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold *it*, the voice of the Lord came unto him, [32 ](/kjv/acts/7/32) *Saying*, I *am* the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. [33 ](/kjv/acts/7/33) Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground. [34 ](/kjv/acts/7/34) 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. [35 ](/kjv/acts/7/35) This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send *to be* a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. [36 ](/kjv/acts/7/36) He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. [37 ](/kjv/acts/7/37) ¶ This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. [38 ](/kjv/acts/7/38) This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and *with* our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: [39 ](/kjv/acts/7/39) To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust *him* from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, [40 ](/kjv/acts/7/40) Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for *as for* this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. [41 ](/kjv/acts/7/41) And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. 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