16
Their bodies were removed to Sh'khem and buried in the tomb Avraham had bought from the family of Hamor in Sh'khem for a certain sum of money.
17
"As the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise God had made to Avraham, the number of our people in Egypt increased greatly,
18
until there arose another king over Egypt who had no knowledge of Yosef.
19
With cruel cunning this man forced our fathers to put their newborn babies outside their homes, so that they would not survive.
20
"It was then that Moshe was born, and he was beautiful in God's sight. For three months he was reared in his father's house;
21
and when he was put out of his home, Pharaoh's daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.
22
So Moshe was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became both a powerful speaker and a man of action.
23
"But when he was forty years old, the thought came to him to visit his brothers, the people of Isra'el.
24
On seeing one of them being mistreated, he went to his defense and took revenge by striking down the Egyptian.
25
He supposed his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn't understand.
26
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?'