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Literal Standard Version

Exodus 7:7

and Moses [is] a son of eighty years, and Aaron [is] a son of eighty-three years, in their speaking 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.
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

1And YHWH says to Moses, "See, I have given you [as] a god to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron is your prophet; 2you speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron speaks to Pharaoh, and he has sent the sons of Israel out of his land. 3And I harden the heart of Pharaoh, and have multiplied My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt, 4and Pharaoh does not listen, and I have put My hand on Egypt, and have brought out My hosts, My people, the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments; 5and the Egyptians have known that I [am] YHWH, in My stretching out My hand against Egypt; and I have brought out the sons of Israel from their midst." 6And Moses does—Aaron also—as YHWH commanded them; so have they done; 7and Moses [is] a son of eighty years, and Aaron [is] a son of eighty-three years, in their speaking 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
And I have established My covenant with you, and you have come into the Ark—you, and your sons, and your wife, and your son's wives with you;
Genesis 7:1
And YHWH says to Noah, "Come, you and all your house, into the Ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before Me in this generation;
Genesis 7:13
On this very same day Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the Ark—
Genesis 7:15
And they come to Noah, into the Ark, two by two of all the flesh in which [is] a living spirit;
Proverbs 22:3
The prudent has seen the evil, and is hidden, || And the simple have passed on, and are punished.
Matthew 24:38
for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the Ark,
Luke 17:27
they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the Ark, and the flood came, and destroyed all;
Hebrews 6:18
that through two immutable things, in which [it is] impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong comfort, having fled for refuge, to lay hold on the hope being set before [us],
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, prepared an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he condemned the world, and he became heir of the righteousness according to faith.
1 Peter 3:20
who sometime [ago] disobeyed when once the long-suffering of God waited, in [the] days of Noah—an ark being prepared—in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved 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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