rsv Acts:7:23-36
rsv@Acts:7:23 @ "When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.
rsv@Acts:7:24 @ And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking the Egyptian.
rsv@Acts:7:25 @ He supposed that his brethren understood that God was giving them deliverance by his hand, but they did not understand.
rsv@Acts:7:26 @ And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and would have reconciled them, saying, `Men, you are brethren, why do you wrong each other?'
rsv@Acts:7:27 @ But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, `Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
rsv@Acts:7:28 @ Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
rsv@Acts:7:29 @ At this retort Moses fled, and became an exile in the land of Mid'ian, where he became the father of two sons.
rsv@Acts:7:30 @ "Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
rsv@Acts:7:31 @ When Moses saw it he wondered at the sight; and as he drew near to look, the voice of the Lord came,
rsv@Acts:7:32 @ `I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.
rsv@Acts:7:33 @ And the Lord said to him, `Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
rsv@Acts:7:34 @ I have surely seen the ill-treatment of my people that are in Egypt and heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.'
rsv@Acts:7:35 @ "This Moses whom they refused, saying, `Who made you a ruler and a judge?' God sent as both ruler and deliverer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.
rsv@Acts:7:36 @ He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
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