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And seeing one [of them] suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian:
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and he supposed that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not.
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And the day following he appeared unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
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But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
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Wouldest thou kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?
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And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.
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And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
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And when Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord,
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I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
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And the Lord said unto him, Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
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I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I am come down to deliver them: and now come, I will send thee into Egypt.