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On seeing one of them being mistreated, he went to his defense and took revenge by striking down the Egyptian.
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He supposed his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn't understand.
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When he appeared the next day, as they were fighting, and tried to make peace between them by saying, 'Men, you are brothers! Why do you want to hurt each other?'
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the one who was mistreating his fellow pushed Moshe away and said, 'Who made you a ruler and judge over us?
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Do you want to kill me, the way you killed that Egyptian yesterday?'
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On hearing this, Moshe fled the country and became an exile in the land of Midyan, where he had two sons.
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"After forty more years, an angel appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai in the flames of a burning thorn bush.
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When Moshe saw this, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to get a better look, there came the voice of ADONAI,
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'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov.' But Moshe trembled with fear and didn't dare to look.
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ADONAI said to him, 'Take off your sandals, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.
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I have clearly seen how My people are being oppressed in Egypt, I have heard their cry, and I have come down to rescue them, and now I will send you to Egypt.'