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`And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came upon his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel;
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and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he did defend, and did justice to the oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian;
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and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand doth give salvation; and they did not understand.
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`On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?
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and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?
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to kill me dost thou wish, as thou didst kill yesterday the Egyptian?
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`And Moses fled at this word, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons,
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and forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai a messenger of the Lord, in a flame of fire of a bush,
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and Moses having seen did wonder at the sight; and he drawing near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord unto him,
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I [am] the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. `And Moses having become terrified, durst not behold,
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and the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place in which thou hast stood is holy ground;