²³ “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his kinfolk, the Israelites.^(A)

²⁴ When he saw one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian.

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called a son of Pharaoh’s daughter, ²⁵ choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. ²⁶ He considered abuse suffered for the Christ^[a] to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to the reward.