Acts 7:6-29

⁶And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat them four hundred years;

⁷and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

⁸And he gave to him the covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

⁹And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,

¹⁰and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.

¹¹But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.

¹²But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent out our fathers first;

¹³and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.

¹⁴And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

¹⁵And Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,

¹⁶and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

¹⁷But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁸until another king over Egypt arose who did not know Joseph.

¹⁹He dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.

²⁰In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely, who was nourished three months in the house of his father.

²¹And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself to be for a son.

²²And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

²³And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;

²⁴and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended him, and avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.

²⁵For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.

²⁶And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, Ye are brethren, why do ye wrong one another?

²⁷But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away, saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?

²⁸Dost thou wish to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?

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