20
At this time Moses was born--a wonderfully beautiful child; and for three months he was cared for in his father's house.
21
At length he was cast out, but Pharaoh's daughter adopted him, and brought him up as her own son.
22
So Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and possessed great influence through his eloquence and his achievements.
23
"And when he was just forty years old, it occurred to him to visit his brethren the descendants of Israel.
24
Seeing one of them wrongfully treated he took his part, and secured justice for the ill-treated man by striking down the Egyptian.
25
He supposed his brethren to be aware that by him God was sending them deliverance; this, however, they did not understand.
26
The next day, also, he came and found two of them fighting, and he endeavoured to make peace between them. "`Sirs,' he said, `you are brothers. Why are you wronging one another?'
27
"But the man who was doing the wrong resented his interference, and asked, "`Who appointed you magistrate and judge over us?
28
Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
29
"Alarmed at this question, Moses fled from the country and went to live in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.
30
"But at the end of forty years there appeared to him in the Desert of Mount Sinai an angel in the middle of a flame of fire in a bush.