Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

When The Time Came, God Raised Up Moses, Whom The People Rejected

¹⁷ “Now as the time of the promise which God declared to Abraham was drawing-near, our people grew and were multiplied in Egypt, ¹⁸ until which time another king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. ¹⁹ This one, having dealt-shrewdly-with our nation^[a], mistreated our fathers, so that he^[b] caused their babies to be exposed^[c] that they might not be kept-alive; ²⁰ at which time Moses was born— and he was beautiful to God— who was brought-up for three months in the house of his father. ²¹ And he having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself for a son. ²² And Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. And he was powerful in his words and deeds. ²³ And as a forty-year period was being fulfilled for him, it came-up^[d] on his heart to visit^[e] his brothers, the sons of Israel. ²⁴ And having seen someone being wronged^[f], he defended him, and executed vengeance for the one being oppressed, having struck the Egyptian. ²⁵ Now he was thinking that his brothers were understanding that God was granting them deliverance by his hand. But the ones did not understand. ²⁶ And on the following day, he appeared to them while they were fighting. And he was reconciling^[g] them to peace, having said, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you wronging one another?’ [Ex 2:13]. ²⁷ But the one wronging his neighbor rejected him, having said, ‘Who appointed you ruler and judge over us? ²⁸ You do not intend to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’ [Ex 2:14]. ²⁹ And Moses fled at this word. And he became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons.