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Contemporary English Version

Exodus 7:7

and spoke to the king. At the time, Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three.

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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to 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 The Lord said: I am going to let your brother Aaron speak for you. He will tell your message to the king, just as a prophet speaks my message to the people. 2 Tell Aaron everything I say to you, and he will order the king to let my people leave his country. 3But I will make the king so stubborn that he won't listen to you. He won't listen even when I do many terrible things to him and his nation. Then I will bring a final punishment on Egypt, and the king will let Israel's families and tribes go. 5 When this happens, the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord . 6 Moses and Aaron obeyed the Lord 7 and spoke to the king. At the time, Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three.

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 I solemnly promise that you, your wife, your sons, and your daughters-in-law will be kept safe in the boat.
Genesis 7:1
The Lord told Noah: Take your whole family with you into the boat, because you are the only one on this earth who pleases me.
Genesis 7:13
On that day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
Genesis 7:15
Noah took a male and a female of every living creature with him,
Proverbs 22:3
When you see trouble coming, don't be stupid and walk right into it— be smart and hide.
Matthew 24:38
People were eating, drinking, and getting married right up to the day that the flood came and Noah went into the big boat.
Luke 17:27
People were eating, drinking, and getting married right up to the day when Noah went into the big boat. Then the flood came and drowned everyone on earth.
Hebrews 6:18
God cannot tell lies! And so his promises and vows are two things that can never be changed. We have run to God for safety. Now his promises should greatly encourage us to take hold of the hope that is right in front of us.
Hebrews 11:7
Because Noah had faith, he was warned about something that had not yet happened. He obeyed and built a boat that saved him and his family. In this way the people of the world were judged, and Noah was given the blessings that come to everyone who pleases God.
1 Peter 3:20
They had disobeyed God while Noah was building the boat, but God had been patient with them. Eight people went into that boat and were brought safely through the flood.

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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