Exodus 7:7 - Exposition

Fourscore years old . This age is confirmed by the statement (in Deuteronomy 31:2 ; Deuteronomy 34:7 ) that Moses was a hundred and twenty at his death. It is also accepted as exact by St. Stephen ( Acts 7:23 , Acts 7:30 ). 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.