Acts:7:20-43
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In which time Moses was born ,
and was exceeding fair ,
and nourished up in his father '
s house three months :
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And when he was cast out ,
Pharaoh '
s daughter took him up ,
and nourished him for her own son .
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And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians ,
and was mighty in words and in deeds .
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And when he was full forty years old ,
it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel .
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And seeing one of them suffer wrong ,
he defended him ,
and avenged him that was oppressed ,
and smote the Egyptian :
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For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them :
but they understood not .
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And the next day he shewed himself 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 ?
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But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away ,
saying ,
Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us ?
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Wilt thou kill me ,
as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday ?
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Then fled Moses at this saying ,
and was a stranger in the land of Madian ,
where he begat two sons .
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And when forty years were expired ,
there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush .
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When Moses saw it ,
he wondered at the sight :
and as he drew near to behold it ,
the voice of the Lord came unto him ,
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Saying ,
I am the God of thy fathers ,
the God of Abraham ,
and the God of Isaac ,
and the God of Jacob .
Then Moses trembled ,
and durst not behold .
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Then said the Lord to him ,
Put off thy shoes from thy feet :
for the place where thou standest is holy ground .
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I have seen ,
I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt ,
and I have heard their groaning ,
and am come down to deliver them .
And now come ,
I will send thee into Egypt .
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This Moses whom they refused ,
saying ,
Who made thee a ruler and a judge ?
the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush .
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He brought them out ,
after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt ,
and in the Red sea ,
and in the wilderness forty years .
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This is that Moses ,
which said unto the children of Israel ,
A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren ,
like unto me ;
him shall ye hear .
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This is he ,
that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina ,
and with our fathers :
who received the lively oracles to give unto us :
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To whom our fathers would not obey ,
but thrust him from them ,
and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt ,
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Saying unto Aaron ,
Make us gods to go before us :
for as for this Moses ,
which brought us out of the land of Egypt ,
we wot not what is become of him .
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And they made a calf in those days ,
and offered sacrifice unto the idol ,
and rejoiced in the works of their own hands .
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Then God turned ,
and gave them up to worship the host of heaven ;
as it is written in the book of the prophets ,
O ye house of Israel ,
have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness ?
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Yea ,
ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch ,
and the star of your god Remphan ,
figures which ye made to worship them :
and I will carry you away beyond Babylon .