Acts 7:16-32

¹⁶And they were brought back to Shechem, and were placed in the tomb which Abraham bought for a price of silver from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.

¹⁷“Now when the time of the promise drew near which God swore to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁸until there arose a different king, who did not know Joseph.

¹⁹This king took advantage of our race, and oppressed our fathers, to make their babies exposed, in order that they might not preserve their lives.

²⁰At this time Moses was born, and he was well pleasing to God; who was brought up in his father's house for three months.

²¹But when he was exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself as a son.

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

²³“Now when he had turned forty years old, it came into his heart to look upon his brothers, the sons of Israel.

²⁴And seeing someone being wronged, he retaliated, and avenged him who was being oppressed, and struck the Egyptian.

²⁵For he supposed that his brothers understood that God was giving to them deliverance by his hand, but they did not understand.

²⁶And on the next day he appeared to them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them to peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong one another?’

²⁷But the one wronging his neighbor pushed him away, saying, ‘Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?

²⁸Do you desire to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’

²⁹Now Moses, at this saying, fled and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons.

³⁰“And forty years having been fulfilled, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.

³¹And Moses, seeing it, marveled at the sight; and as he approached it to observe closely, the voice of the Lord came to him,

³²saying, ‘I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ And Moses was trembling and was not bold enough to look closely.