²³ “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart ^(A)to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. ²⁴ And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. ²⁵ He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand. ^26 (B)And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’ ²⁷ But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, ^(C)‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸ Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ ²⁹ At this retort ^(D)Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, ^(E)where he became the father of two sons.

³⁰ “Now when forty years had passed, ^(F)an angel appeared to him ^(G)in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.