Acts 7:23-30 ▼

23 |When he was 40 years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the descendants of Israel.

24 When he saw one of them being mistreated, he defended him and avenged the man who was being mistreated by killing the Egyptian.

25 He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn't understand.

26 The next day, he presented himself to some of them while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them. He said, 'Men, you are brothers. Why should you be hurting another?'

27 |But the man who was harming his neighbor pushed Moses away and said, 'Who made you ruler and judge over us?

28 You don't want to kill me like you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?'

29 Because of this, Moses fled and lived as a foreigner in the land of Midian. There he had two sons.

30 |After 40 years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.