Acts of the Apostles

and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.

"But as the time of the promise came close which God swore to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

until there arose a different king, who didn't know Joseph.

The same dealt slyly with our race, and mistreated our fathers, that they should throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.

At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.

When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

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

Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.

"The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one to another?'

But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'

Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

"When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai , in a flame of fire in a bush.