Acts 7:23-32

²³'And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came upon his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel;

²⁴and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he did defend, and did justice to the oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian;

²⁵and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand doth give salvation; and they did not understand.

²⁶'On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?

²⁷and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?

²⁸to kill me dost thou wish, as thou didst kill yesterday the Egyptian?

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

³⁰and forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai a messenger of the Lord, in a flame of fire of a bush,

³¹and Moses having seen did wonder at the sight; and he drawing near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord unto him,

³²I am the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 'And Moses having become terrified, durst not behold,