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Acts 7:14-39

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14Then Joseph sent an urgent invitation to his father Jacob and to his relatives, seventy-five persons in all;
15and so Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and our ancestors also,
16and their bodies were removed to Shechem, and laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
17As the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise which God had made to Abraham, the people increased largely in numbers in Egypt,
18until a new king, who knew nothing of Joseph, came to the throne.
19This king acted deceitfully towards our people and ill-treated our ancestors, making them abandon their own infants, so that they should not be reared.
20It was just at this time that Moses was born. He was an exceedingly beautiful child, and for three months was brought up in his own father's house;
21and, when he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh found him and brought him up as her own son.
22So Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and proved his ability both by his words and actions.
23When he was in his fortieth year, he resolved to visit his fellow Israelites;
24and, seeing an Israelite ill-treated, he defended him, and avenged the man, who was being wronged, by striking down the Egyptian.
25He thought his own people would understand that God was using him to save them; but they failed to do so.
26The next day he again appeared on the scene, when some of them were fighting, and tried to make peace between them. ‘Men,’ he said, ‘you are brothers; how is it that you are ill-treating one another?’
27But the man who was ill-treating his fellow workman pushed Moses aside saying — ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?
28Do you mean to make away with me as you did yesterday with that Egyptian?’
29At these words Moses took to flight, and became an exile in Midian; and there he had two sons born to him.
30Forty years had passed when there appeared to him, in the desert of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.
31When Moses saw it, he was astonished at the vision; but on his going nearer to look at it more closely, the voice of the Lord was heard to say —
32‘I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled, and did not dare to look.
33Then the Lord said to him — ‘Take your sandals off your feet, for the spot where you are standing is holy ground.
34I have seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them. Come now and I will send you into Egypt.’
35This same Moses, whom they had disowned with the words — ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ was the man whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer, under the guidance of the angel that had appeared to him in the bush.
36He it was who led them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the desert during forty years.
37This was the Moses who said to the people of Israel — ‘God will raise up for you, from amongst yourselves, a prophet, as he raised up me.’
38He, too, it was who was present at the assembly in the desert, with the angel who talked to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and who received living truths to impart to you.
39Yet our ancestors refused him obedience; more than that, they rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

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