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What does Acts 7:26 mean?
"“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’"
— Acts 7:26 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.
He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.
“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’
But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
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