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The next day he came to some of them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, "Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong each other?'
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But the man who was wronging his neighbor pushed Moses 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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When he heard this, Moses fled and became a resident alien in the land of Midian. There 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 the flame of a burning bush.
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When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to look, there came the voice of the Lord:
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"I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.
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Then the Lord said to him, "Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
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I have surely seen the mistreatment of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you to Egypt.'
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"It was this Moses whom they rejected when they said, "Who made you a ruler and a judge?' and whom God now sent as both ruler and liberator through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
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He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.