20. In which time Moses was born and was beautiful to God and was nourished in his father’s house three months;
21. and when he was put in danger, Pharaoh’s daughter took him in and nourished him as her own son.
22. And Moses was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in his words and deeds.
23. And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the sons of Israel.
24. And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him and smote the Egyptian, avenging the oppressed;
25. for he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God was to give them saving health by his hand, but they had not understood.
26. And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove and urged them to peace, 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 prince and a judge over us?
28. Wilt thou kill me as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?
29. Then Moses fled at this word and became a sojourner in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
30. And when forty years were expired, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
31. When Moses saw it, he wondered at the vision; and as he drew near to consider it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,
32. 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 dared not to behold.
33. Then the Lord said to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet; for the place where thou dost stand 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 had refused, saying, Who made thee a prince and a judge? the same did God send as prince and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36. He brought them out, showing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
37. This is that Moses, who said unto the sons of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me; him shall ye hear.
38. This is he, who was in the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in the Mount Sinai and with our fathers, who received the oracles of life to give unto us;