Acts 7:25-37

²⁵He thought his own people would understand that God was using him to save them; but they failed to do so.

²⁶The next day he again appeared on the scene, when some of them were fighting, and tried to make peace between them. ‘Men,’ he said, ‘you are brothers; how is it that you are ill-treating one another?’

²⁷But the man who was ill-treating his fellow workman pushed Moses aside saying — ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

²⁸Do you mean to make away with me as you did yesterday with that Egyptian?’

²⁹At these words Moses took to flight, and became an exile in Midian; and there he had two sons born to him.

³⁰Forty years had passed when there appeared to him, in the desert of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.

³¹When Moses saw it, he was astonished at the vision; but on his going nearer to look at it more closely, the voice of the Lord was heard to say —

³²‘I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled, and did not dare to look.

³³Then the Lord said to him — ‘Take your sandals off your feet, for the spot where you are standing is holy ground.

³⁴I have seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them. Come now and I will send you into Egypt.’

³⁵This same Moses, whom they had disowned with the words — ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ was the man whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer, under the guidance of the angel that had appeared to him in the bush.

³⁶He it was who led them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the desert during forty years.

³⁷This was the Moses who said to the people of Israel — ‘God will raise up for you, from among yourselves, a prophet, as he raised up me.’