# When forty years were past

"After 40 years passed." This was the amount of time Moses had been in Midian. Alternate translation: "Forty years after Moses fled from Egypt" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])

# an angel appeared

Stephen's audience knew that God spoke through the angel. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])