Deeds (Act) of Apostles 7:17-38

¹⁷And when the time of promise came nigh, which God had acknowl-edged to Abraham, the people waxed, and multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁸till another king rose in Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

¹⁹This beguiled our kin, and torment-ed our fathers, that they should put away or should put out their young children, for they should not live.

²⁰In the same time Moses was born, and he was loved or accepted of God; and he was nourished three months in the house of his father.

²¹And when he was put out in the flood, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and nourished him into her son.

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

²³But when the time of forty years was full-filled to him, it rose up into his heart, that he should visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.

²⁴And when he saw a man suffering wrong, he avenged him, and did vengeance for him that suffered the wrong, and killed the Egyptian.

²⁵For he guessed that his brethren should understand, that God should give to them health by the hand of him; but they understood not.

²⁶For in the day pursuing he appeared to them chiding, and he accorded or reconciled them in peace, and said, Men, ye be brethren; why annoy ye each other?

²⁷But he that did the wrong to his neighbour, putted him away, and said, Who ordained thee prince and dooms-man on us?

²⁸Whether thou wilt slay me, as yesterday thou killedest the Egyptian?

²⁹And in this word Moses flew, and was made a comeling in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.

³⁰And when he had ful filled forty years, an angel appeared to him in fire of flame of a bush, in desert of the mount of Sinai.

³¹And Moses saw, and wondered on the sight. And when he nighed to behold, the voice of the Lord was made to him,

³²and said, I am God of your fathers, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. Moses was made trembling, and durst not behold.

³³But God said to him, Do off the shoes of thy feet, for the place in which thou standest is holy earth.

³⁴I seeing saw the tormenting or the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and I heard the mourning of them, and came down to deliver them. And now come thou, and I shall send thee into Egypt.

³⁵This Moses whom they denied, saying, Who ordained thee prince and doomsman on us? God sent this prince and again-buyer, with the hand of the angel, that appeared to him in the bush.

³⁶This Moses led them out, and did wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in desert forty years.

³⁷This is Moses, that said to the sons of Israel, God shall raise to you a prophet of your brethren, and as me ye shall hear him.

³⁸This it is, that was in the church in wilderness, with the angel that spake to him in the mount of Sinai, and with our fathers; which took words of life to give to us.