20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: |
21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. |
22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. |
23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. |
24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: |
25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not. |
26 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? |
27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? |
28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday? |
29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons. |
30 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. |
31 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, |
32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abrham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. |
33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground. |
34 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. |
35 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. |
36 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. |
