Acts 7:20-36

Revised Geneva Translation

²⁰ “At the same time, Moses was born, and was acceptable to God. He was nursed in his father’s house for three months.

²¹ “And when he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and brought him up as her own son.

²² “And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words and in deeds.

²³ “Now when he was fully forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

²⁴ “And when he saw one of them being wronged, he defended him, and avenged the one who had been harmed, and killed the Egyptian.

²⁵ “For he assumed that his brothers would have understood that God, by His hand, would give them deliverance. But they did not understand that.

²⁶ “And the next day, he showed himself to them as they fought, and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’

²⁷ “But the one who had wronged his neighbor thrust him away, saying, ‘Who made you a prince and a judge over us?

²⁸ ‘Will you kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’

²⁹ “Then Moses fled at those words, and was a stranger in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.

³⁰ “And after forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord in a flame of fire appeared to him in a bush, in the wilderness of mount Sinai.

³¹ “And when Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. And as he drew near to examine it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,

³² ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Then Moses trembled, and dared not look at it.

³³ “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your shoes from your feet. For the place where you stand is Holy Ground.

³⁴ ‘Seeing, I have seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt. And I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now, come, and I will send you into Egypt.

³⁵ “This Moses whom they forsook, saying, ‘Who made you a prince and a judge?’ The same man God sent as a prince and a deliverer, by the hand of the Angel which appeared to him in the bush.

³⁶ “He brought them out, doing wonders and miracles in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness, forty years.