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Acts 7:25
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23 a“Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.  
24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.
25 For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.
26 And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?’
27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, a‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?  
28 Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’
29 aThen, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he bhad two sons.  
Verse Comparison: Acts 7:25

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American Standard Version
and he supposed that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not.

Amplified® Bible
He expected his brethren to understand that God was granting them deliverance by his hand [taking it for granted that they would accept him]; but they did not understand.

Contemporary English Version
Moses thought the rest of his people would realize that God was going to use him to set them free. But they didn't understand.

Darby English Version
For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.

Good News Bible
(He thought that his own people would understand that God was going to use him to set them free, but they did not understand.)

International Standard Version
He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn't understand.

King James Version
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

New American Standard Bible
"And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

New International Version
Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not.

New King James Version
For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"And he supposed that his brethren understood that God had granted them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

Young's Literal Translation
and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand doth give salvation; and they did not understand.

New English Translation
He thought his own people1 would understand that God was delivering them2 through him,3 but they did not understand.4


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