dren of Israel. (24)And seeing one of them treated
injuriously, he defended him, and executed vengeance for him who had
suffered the outrage, smiting the Egyptian. (25)For he thought that his
brethren would understand that God by his hand would give them
deliverance: but they understood not. (26)And the following day he
shewed himself to them as they were fighting, and urged them to peace,
saying, My friends, ye are brethren; wherefore do ye ill treat one
another? (27)Then he who did his neighbour wrong thrust him from him,
saying, Who appointed thee a ruler and a judge over us? (28)Wilt thou
kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday? (29)Then fled Moses
at this saying, and was a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he
begat two sons.

(30)And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him in the
desert of mount Sinai the angel of the Lord, in a flame of fire in a
bush. (31)But when Moses saw it, he marvelled at the sight: and as he
was drawing nearer to observe it, a voice from the Lord came to him,
(32)"I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob[34]." Then Moses trembling, dared not to
look farther.

(33)Then the Lord said unto him, "Loose the sandal from thy feet: for
the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. (34)Attentive I have
beheld the evil treatment of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their
groaning, and I am come down to deliver them. And now come hither, I
will send thee into Egypt[35]." (35)This very Moses whom they had
rejected, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God
send to be a ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared
to him in the bush. (36)He brought them forth, after performing
miracles and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the
wilderness forty years. (37)This is the Moses who said unto the
children of Israel, "A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up for you
from among your brethren, as myself; him shall ye hear[36]." (38)This
is he, who was with the church in the wilderness with the angel who
spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the
oracles of life to give unto us: (39)to whom our fathers would not be
obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts
unto Egypt, (40)saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us:
for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not
what hath happened to him. (41