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and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended [him], and avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.
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For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.
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And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, *Ye* are brethren, why do ye wrong one another?
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But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away, saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?
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Dost *thou* wish to 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 Madiam, 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 of a bush.
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And Moses seeing it wondered at the vision; and as he went up to consider it, there was 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 consider [it].
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And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place on which thou standest is holy ground.
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I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.