Acts 7:23-30 ▼

23 And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came on his heart to look after his brothers, the sons of Israel;

24 and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he defended, and did justice to the oppressed, having struck the Egyptian;

25 and he was supposing his brothers to understand that God gives salvation through his hand; and they did not understand.

26 On the succeeding day, also, he showed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers, why do you do injustice to one another?

27 And he who is doing injustice to the neighbor, thrusted him away, saying, Who set you a ruler and a judge over us?

28 Do you wish to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?

29 And Moses fled at this word, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begot two sons,

30 and forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai [the] Messenger of the LORD, in a flame of fire of a bush,