Acts 7:33-35

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³³ But the Lord said to him, ‘Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. ³⁴ I have looked long and hard at the trouble my people are having in Egypt. I have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. So, come on now: I’m going to send you to Egypt.’ ”

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³⁵ “So,” Stephen continued, “this same Moses—the one they rejected, saying ‘Who made you a ruler or judge?’—this is the man God sent as ruler and redeemer, by the hand of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.