Acts 7:30

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Summary

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.

When

Acts 7:17

Exodus 7:7

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In a flame

In a bush

General references

Exodus 7:7

Bible References

When

But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh.

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I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.

And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,

Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn.

And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,

And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up.

It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;

See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.

In a flame

But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.

You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

And the captains, the chiefs, and the rulers, and the king's wise men who had come together, saw these men, over whose bodies the fire had no power, and not a hair of their heads was burned, and their coats were not changed, and there was no smell of fire about them.

In a bush

This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.

The good things of the earth and all its wealth, the good pleasure of him who was seen in the burning tree: may they come on the head of Joseph, on the head of him who was prince among his brothers.

But as to the dead coming back to life; have you not seen in the book of Moses, about the burning thorn-tree, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

General references

And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh.