Acts 7:28-38

28 Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
29 After he said that, Moses quickly left Egypt and lived in Midian as a foreigner. In Midian he fathered two sons.
30 "Forty years later, a messenger appeared to him in the flames of a burning bush in the desert of Mount Sinai.
31 Moses was surprised when he saw this. As he went closer to look at the bush, the voice of the Lord said to him,
32 'I am the God of your ancestors--the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses began to tremble and didn't dare to look at the bush.
33 The Lord told him, 'Take off your sandals. The place where you're standing is holy ground.
34 I've seen how my people are mistreated in Egypt. I've heard their groaning and have come to rescue them. So now I'm sending you to Egypt.'
35 "This is the Moses whom the Israelites rejected by saying, 'Who made you our ruler and judge?' This is the one God sent to free them and to rule them with the help of the messenger who appeared to him in the bush.
36 This is the man who led our ancestors out of Egypt. He is the person who did amazing things and worked miracles in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the desert for 40 years.
37 This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, 'God will send you a prophet, an Israelite like me.'
38 This is the Moses who was in the assembly in the desert. Our ancestors and the messenger who spoke to him on Mount Sinai were there with him. Moses received life-giving messages to give to us,
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