Acts 7:16-32

¹⁶and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

¹⁷But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁸until another king over Egypt arose who did not know Joseph.

¹⁹He dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.

²⁰In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely, who was nourished three months in the house of his father.

²¹And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself to be for a son.

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

²³And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;

²⁴and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended him, and avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.

²⁵For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.

²⁶And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, Ye are brethren, why do ye wrong one another?

²⁷But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away, saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?

²⁸Dost thou wish to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?

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

³⁰And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire of a bush.

³¹And Moses seeing it wondered at the vision; and as he went up to consider it, there was a voice of the Lord,

³²I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not consider it.