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Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
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“When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites.
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He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian.
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Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not.
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The next day Moses came upon two Israelites who were fighting. He tried to reconcile them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?’
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“But the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?
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Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’[a]