Acts 7:27-37

²⁷But the man who had started the fight pushed Moses away. ‘Who put you in charge over us? Are you our judge now?’ he asked.

²⁸‘Are you going to kill me like you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’

²⁹When he heard this, Moses ran away. He went and lived in exile in the land of Midian, where two sons were born to him.

³⁰Forty years later, in the desert of Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to him in the flames of a burning bush.

³¹When Moses saw this, he was amazed at the sight, and went over to take a closer look. The voice of the Lord spoke to him:

³²‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses shook with fear and didn't dare look up.

³³The Lord told him, ‘Take off your sandals, because where you are standing is holy ground.

³⁴I have closely observed the suffering of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groans. I have come down to rescue them. Now come over here, for I'm sending you to Egypt.’

³⁵This was the same Moses that the people had rejected when they said, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?’ God sent him to be both a ruler and a liberator, by means of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

³⁶Moses led them out after performing miraculous signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and continued to do so in the desert for forty years.

³⁷This is the same Moses who promised the Israelites, ‘God will send you a prophet like me from among your people.’