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.
30. “Forty years later, an angel appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai in the flame of a burning bush.
31. When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and as he drew near to look at it, the voice of the Lord came,
32. ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob.’ Then Moses, trembling, did not dare to look at it.
33. But the Lord said to him, ‘Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
34. I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you to Egypt.’
35. This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who appointed you ruler and judge?’ God sent as [both] ruler and deliverer, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36. This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the desert for forty years.