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He thought his brothers would be glad that he was on their side, and even see him as an instrument of God to deliver them. But they didn't see it that way.
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The next day two of them were fighting and he tried to break it up, told them to shake hands and get along with each other: 'Friends, you are brothers, why are you beating up on each other?'
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"The one who had started the fight said, 'Who put you in charge of us?
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Are you going to kill me like you killed that Egyptian yesterday?'
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When Moses heard that, realizing that the word was out, he ran for his life and lived in exile over in Midian. During the years of exile, two sons were born to him.
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"Forty years later, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to him in the guise of flames of a burning bush.
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Moses, not believing his eyes, went up to take a closer look. He heard God's voice:
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'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Frightened nearly out of his skin, Moses shut his eyes and turned away.
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"God said, 'Kneel and pray. You are in a holy place, on holy ground.
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I've seen the agony of my people in Egypt. I've heard their groans. I've come to help them. So get yourself ready; I'm sending you back to Egypt.'
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"This is the same Moses whom they earlier rejected, saying, 'Who put you in charge of us?' This is the Moses that God, using the angel flaming in the burning bush, sent back as ruler and redeemer.