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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.
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The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
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I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Mitzrayim, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Mitzrayim.'
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"This Moshe, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' -- God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
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This man led them forth, having worked wonders and signs in Mitzrayim, in the Sea of Suf, and in the wilderness forty years.