Exodus 7:7

Exodus 7:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three when they made their demands to Pharaoh.

Context of Exodus 7:7

5And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.” 6Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded them. Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh. 8The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a snake.”

Exodus 7:7 word by word

וּמֹשֶׁה֙ בֶּן־שְׁמֹנִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה וְאַֽהֲרֹ֔ן בֶּן־שָׁלֹ֥שׁ וּשְׁמֹנִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה בְּדַבְּרָ֖ם אֶל־פַּרְעֹֽה׃ פRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And Mosesמֹשֶׁהmôsheh · MosesH4872
• fourscoreשְׁמֹנִיםshemônîym shemônîym · eightyH8084
• yearsשָׁנָהshâneh shânâh · yearH8141
• oldבֵּןbên · son: agedH1121
• and Aaronאַהֲרֹן'ahărôn · AaronH175
• and threeשָׁלֹשׁshâlôsh shâlôsh shelôshâh shelôshâh · threeH7969
• when they spakeדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
• unto Pharaohפַּרְעֹהpar‛ôh · PharaohH6547

Cross-references for Exodus 7:7

• Exodus 2:23During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
• Genesis 41:46Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout Egypt.
• Deuteronomy 29:5Yet the Lord says, “During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.
• Deuteronomy 31:2“I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’
• Deuteronomy 34:7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone.
• Psalms 90:10Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
• Acts 7:23“When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites.

Commentaries on Exodus 7:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Moses was fourscore years old - He was forty years old when he went to Midian, and he had tarried forty years in Midian; (see Exodus 2:11, and Acts 7:30;); and from this verse it appears that Aaron was three years older than Moses. We have already seen that Miriam their sister was older than either, Exodus 2:4.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7Although 80 years might seem old to us, it was not especially old in Moses and Aaron’s family line. Their ancestors often lived between 130 and 140 years (see 6:16, 18, 20).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Moses was fourscore years old--This advanced age was a pledge that they had not been readily betrayed into a rash or hazardous enterprise, and that under its attendant infirmities they could not have carried through the work on which they were entering had they not been supported by a divine hand.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Exodus 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings