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And Moses was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in his words and deeds.
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And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the sons of Israel.
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And seeing one
of them suffer wrong, he defended
him and smote the Egyptian, avenging the oppressed;
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for he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God was to give them saving health by his hand, but they had not understood.
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And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove and urged them to peace, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
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But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
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Wilt thou kill me as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?
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Then Moses fled at this word and became a sojourner in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
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And when forty years were expired, the 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 Moses saw
it, he wondered at the vision; and as he drew near to consider
it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,
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saying, I
am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and dared not to behold.