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"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;
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and when he was put out of his home, Pharaoh's daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.
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So Moshe was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became both a powerful speaker and a man of action.
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"But when he was forty years old, the thought came to him to visit his brothers, the people of Isra'el.
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On seeing one of them being mistreated, he went to his defense and took revenge by striking down the Egyptian.
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He supposed his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn't understand.
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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?'
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the one who was mistreating his fellow pushed Moshe away and said, 'Who made you a ruler and judge over us?
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Do you want to kill me, the way you killed that Egyptian yesterday?'
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On hearing this, Moshe fled the country and became an exile in the land of Midyan, where he had two sons.
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"After forty more years, an angel appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai in the flames of a burning thorn bush.