17. “When the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise that God pledged to Abraham, the people had increased and become very numerous in Egypt,
18. until another king who knew nothing of Joseph came to power [in Egypt].
19. He dealt shrewdly with our people and oppressed [our] ancestors by forcing them to expose their infants, that they might not survive.
20. At this time Moses was born, and he was extremely beautiful. For three months he was nursed in his father’s house;
21. but when he was exposed, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
22. Moses was educated [in] all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.
23. “When he was forty years old, he decided to visit his kinsfolk, the Israelites.
24. When he saw one of them treated unjustly, he defended and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.
25. He assumed [his] kinsfolk would understand that God was offering them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.
26. The next day he appeared to them as they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you harming one another?’
27. Then the one who was harming his neighbor pushed him aside, saying, ‘Who appointed you ruler and judge over us?
28. Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
29. Moses fled when he heard this and settled as an alien in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.