[7:17] "But when the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt
[7:18] "till another king arose who did not know Joseph.
[7:19] "This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, making them expose their babies, so that they might not live.
[7:20] "At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father's house for three months.
[7:21] "But when he was set out, Pharaoh's daughter took him away and brought him up as her own son.
[7:22] "And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.
[7:23] "Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
[7:24] "And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.
[7:25] "For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.
[7:26] "And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, 'Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?'
[7:27] "But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
[7:28] 'Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?'
[7:29] "Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.
[7:30] "And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.
[7:31] "When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to observe, the voice of the Lord came to him,
[7:32] "saying, 'I am the God of your fathers--the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and dared not look.
[7:33] 'Then the LORD said to him, "Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
[7:34] "I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt."'
[7:35] "This Moses whom they rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.
[7:36] "He brought them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.