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"When he was 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 being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking the Egyptian.
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He supposed that his brethren understood that God was giving them deliverance by his hand, but they did not understand.
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And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and would have reconciled them, saying, 'Men, you are brethren, why do you wrong each other?'
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But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, 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 Egyptian yesterday?'
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At this retort Moses fled, and became an exile in the land of Mid'ian, where he became the father of two sons.
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"Now when forty years had passed, an angel 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 sight; and as he drew near to look, the voice of the Lord came,
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'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.
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And the Lord said to him, 'Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.