Acts 7:2-31

²And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,

³And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide.

⁴Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:

⁵And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.

⁶And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

⁷And I will be the judge, said God, of that nation which made them servants: and after that, they will come out and give me worship in this place.

⁸And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

⁹And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,

¹⁰And made him free from all his troubles, and gave him wisdom and the approval of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and all his house.

¹¹Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

¹²But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.

¹³And the second time his brothers had a meeting with Joseph, and Pharaoh had knowledge of Joseph's family.

¹⁴Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.

¹⁵And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;

¹⁶And they were taken over to Shechem, and put to rest in the place which Abraham got for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

¹⁷But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

¹⁸Till another king came to power, who had no knowledge of Joseph.

¹⁹He, having evil designs against our nation, was cruel to our fathers, and they were forced to put out their young children, so that they might not go on living.

²⁰At which time Moses came to birth, and he was very beautiful; and he was kept for three months in his father's house:

²¹And when he was put out, Pharaoh's daughter took him and kept him as her son.

²²And Moses was trained in all the wisdom of Egypt, and was great in his words and works.

²³But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.

²⁴And seeing one of them being attacked, he went to his help and gave the Egyptian a death-blow:

²⁵And he was hoping that his brothers would see that God had sent him to be their saviour; but they did not see.

²⁶And the day after, he came to them, while they were having a fight, and would have made peace between them, saying, Sirs, you are brothers; why do you do wrong to one another?

²⁷But the man who was doing wrong to his neighbour, pushing him away, said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

²⁸Will you put me to death as you did the Egyptian yesterday?

²⁹And at these words, Moses went in flight to the land of Midian, and was living there for a time, and had two sons.

³⁰At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.

³¹And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,