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Acts - ch 7 v 21 - 40
- and when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
- And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and works.
- But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
- And seeing one `of them' suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian:
- and he supposed that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not.
- And the day following he appeared unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
- But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
- Wouldest thou kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?
- And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.
- And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
- And when Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord,
- I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
- And the Lord said unto him, Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
- I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I am come down to deliver them: and now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
- This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? him hath God sent `to be' both a ruler and a deliverer with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.
- This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
- This is that Moses, who said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like unto me.
- This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel that spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living oracles to give unto us:
- to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,
- saying unto Aaron, Make us gods that shall go before us: for as for this Moses, who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
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