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"And when he was fully forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
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And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian,
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for he supposed his brethren would have understood how God, by his hand, would deliver them; but they understood not.
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And the next day he showed himself unto them as they were quarreling, and would have set them at one again, saying, `Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one another?'
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But he that was doing his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, `Who made thee a ruler and 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 saying and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he begot two sons.
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"And when forty years had expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai an angel of the Lord, 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 behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, saying,
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`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 behold.
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Then said the Lord to him, `Put off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place where thou standest is holy ground.