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Exodus 7:7

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aaron;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Enchantments;   Exodus;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Moses;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Exodus, the;   Moses;   Stephen;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Plagues;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron;   Plagues of egypt;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Plagues, the Ten,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Enslavement, the;   Exodus, the;   Encampment at Sinai;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Aaron;   Exodus, the Book of;   Four;   Number;   Revelation;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Aaron;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Jochebed;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe was eighty years old, and Aharon eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Par`oh.
King James Version
And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
Lexham English Bible
(And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.)
New Century Version
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to the king.
New English Translation
Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Amplified Bible
Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
New American Standard Bible
And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
(Nowe Moses was foure score yeere olde, and Aaron foure score and three, when they spake vnto Pharaoh)
Legacy Standard Bible
Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Contemporary English Version
and spoke to the king. At the time, Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe was eighty years old and Aharon eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Darby Translation
And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Easy-to-Read Version
Moses was 80 years old at the time, and Aaron was 83.
English Standard Version
Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Good News Translation
At the time when they spoke to the king, Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three.
Christian Standard Bible®
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Literal Translation
And Moses was a son of eighty years, and Aaron was a son of eighty three years when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses was foure score yeare olde, & Aaron thre & foure score yeare olde, whan they spake vnto Pharao.
American Standard Version
And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moyses was fourescore yere olde, and Aaron fourescore and three, when they spake vnto Pharao.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses was fourescore yeres olde, and Aaron fourescore and three yeeres old, when they spake vnto Pharaoh.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron his brother was eighty-three years old, when he spoke to Pharao.
English Revised Version
And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
Berean Standard Bible
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Moyses was of fourescoor yeer, and Aaron was of fourescoor yeer and thre, whanne thei spaken to Farao.
Young's Literal Translation
and Moses [is] a son of eighty years, and Aaron [is] a son of eighty and three years, in their speaking unto Pharaoh.
Update Bible Version
And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses [was] eighty years old, and Aaron eighty and three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
World English Bible
Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
New King James Version
And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
New Living Translation
Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three when they made their demands to Pharaoh.
New Life Bible
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
New Revised Standard
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now Moses, was eighty years old, and, Aaron, eighty-three years old, - when they spake unto Pharaoh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty- three, when they spoke to Pharao.
Revised Standard Version
Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Contextual Overview

1 And the Lord said to Moses, See I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. 2 Say whatever I give you orders to say: and Aaron your brother will give word to Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out of his land. 3 And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and my signs and wonders will be increased in the land of Egypt. 4 But Pharaoh will not give ear to you, and I will put my hand on Egypt, and take my armies, my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt, after great punishments. 5 And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when my hand is stretched out over Egypt, and I take the children of Israel out from among them. 6 And Moses and Aaron did so: as the Lord gave them orders, so they did. 7 And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 2:23, Genesis 41:46, Deuteronomy 29:5, Deuteronomy 31:2, Deuteronomy 34:7, Psalms 90:10, Acts 7:23, Acts 7:30

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:9 - have not

Cross-References

Genesis 6:18
But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
Genesis 7:13
On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;
Genesis 7:15
They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
Proverbs 22:3
The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.
Matthew 24:38
Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,
Luke 17:27
They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.
Hebrews 6:18
So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.
1 Peter 3:20
Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses was eighty years old,.... At this time, which is observed partly to show how long Israel had been afflicted in Egypt; for their great troubles and miseries began about the time of the birth of Moses, or a little before, as appears from the above history; and partly to show the patience and forbearance of God with the Egyptians, and how just and righteous were his judgments on them; with this perfectly agrees Stephen's account of the age of Moses, Acts 7:23 and Aaron eighty three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh; so that they were men that had had a large experience of things, and had been long training up for the service designed to be done by them; they were men of wisdom and prudence, of sedate and composed countenances, and fit to appear before a king, whose age and venerable aspect might command attention to them. Aben Ezra observes, that

"in all the Scripture there is no mention of any prophets that prophesied in their old age but these, because their excellency was greater than all the prophets.''

By this it appears that Aaron was three years older than Moses. A Jewish chronologer says n, that it is affirmed in an exposition of theirs, that Aaron prophesied to the Israelites in Egypt eighty years, which is making him to be a very young prophet when he first entered into the office. The Arabic writers o say, Miriam was at this time eighty seven, so was seven years older than Moses, and four years older than Aaron; see Exodus 2:4.

n Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 7. 1. o Patricides, p. 26. apud Hottinger. p. 415.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 7:7. Moses 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.


 
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