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Moshe was instructed in all the wisdom of the Mitzrim. He was mighty in his words and works.
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But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Yisra'el.
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Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Mitzrian.
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He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.
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"The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at shalom again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one to another?'
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But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
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Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Mitzrian yesterday?'
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Moshe fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midyan, where he became the father of two sons.
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"When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
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When Moshe saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,
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'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, the God of Yitzchak, and the God of Ya`akov.' Moshe trembled, and dared not look.