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Exodus 7:7

The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 7:7

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Fourscore years old. This age is confirmed by the statement (in ; ) that Moses was a hundred and twenty at his death. It is also accepted as exact by St. Stephen (, ).

Moderns are surprised that at such an age a man could undertake and carry through a difficult and dangerous enterprise; but in Egypt one hundred and ten years was not considered a very exceptionally long life, and men frequently retained their full vigour till seventy or eighty.

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