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till another king arose who did not know Joseph.
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This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, making them expose their babies, so that they might not live.
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At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father's house for three months.
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But when he was set out, Pharaoh's daughter took him away and brought him up as her own son.
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And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.
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Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
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And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.
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For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.
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And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, 'Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?'
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But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
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Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?'