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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.
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He led them out of their slavery. He did wonderful things, setting up God-signs all through Egypt, down at the Red Sea, and out in the wilderness for forty years.
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This is the Moses who said to his congregation, 'God will raise up a prophet just like me from your descendants.'