Acts 7:16-29

¹⁶And they were removed to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.

¹⁷But as the time of the promise drew near, which God solemnly made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁸until another king arose, who knew not Joseph.

¹⁹The same dealt subtly with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, so that they should cast out their infants, that they might not be preserved alive.

²⁰In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly fair; who was nourished in his father's house three months.

²¹And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for herself as a son.

²²And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in his worlds and deeds.

²³And when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.

²⁴And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed by smiting the Egyptian.

²⁵For he supposed his brethren would understand that God through his hand would give them salvation; but they understood not.

²⁶And the next day he showed himself to them as they were contending, and urged them to peace, saying, Ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one another?

²⁷But he who was wronging his neighbor thrust him away, saying, “Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

²⁸Dost thou mean to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday?”

²⁹And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.