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And seeing one of them being attacked, he went to his help and gave the Egyptian a death-blow:
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And he was hoping that his brothers would see that God had sent him to be their saviour; but they did not see.
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And the day after, he came to them, while they were having a fight, and would have made peace between them, saying, Sirs, you are brothers; why do you do wrong to one another?
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But the man who was doing wrong to his neighbour, pushing him away, said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
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Will you put me to death as you did the Egyptian yesterday?
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And at these words, Moses went in flight to the land of Midian, and was living there for a time, and had two sons.
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At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.
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And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,
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I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.
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And the Lord said, Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.
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Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt.