Acts 7:25-41

²⁵For he supposed his brethren would understand that God through his hand would give them salvation; but they understood not.

²⁶And the next day he showed himself to them as they were contending, and urged them to peace, saying, Ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one another?

²⁷But he who was wronging his neighbor thrust him away, saying, “Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

²⁸Dost thou mean to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday?”

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

³⁰And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai an angel in the flaming fire of a bush.

³¹And Moses seeing it wondered at the sight; and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came to him,

³²saying, “I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.” And Moses trembled and durst not behold.

³³And the Lord said to him, “Loose the sandals from thy feet; for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

³⁴I have surely seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them; and now, come, I will send thee into Egypt.”

³⁵This Moses, whom they denied, saying, “Who made thee a ruler and a judge?” this very man did God send both as a ruler and a redeemer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

³⁶This very man brought them out, working wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

³⁷This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, “A prophet will God raise up to you from among your brethren, as he raised up me.”

³⁸This is he that was in the assembly in the wilderness with the anger who spake to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the living oracles to give to us;

³⁹to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,

⁴⁰saying to Aaron, “Make us gods who shall go before us; for as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.”

⁴¹And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.