26. “The next day he visited them again and saw two men of Israel fighting. He tried to be a peacemaker. ‘Men,’ he said, ‘you are brothers. Why are you fighting each other?’
27. “But the man in the wrong pushed Moses aside. ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?’ he asked.
28. ‘Are you going to kill me as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?’
29. When Moses heard that, he fled the country and lived as a foreigner in the land of Midian. There his two sons were born.
30. “Forty years later, in the desert near Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to Moses in the flame of a burning bush.