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Do you want to kill me, the way you killed that Egyptian yesterday?'
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On hearing this, Moshe fled the country and became an exile in the land of Midyan, where he had two sons.
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"After forty more years, an angel appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai in the flames of a burning thorn bush.
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When Moshe saw this, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to get a better look, there came the voice of ADONAI,
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'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov.' But Moshe trembled with fear and didn't dare to look.
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ADONAI said to him, 'Take off your sandals, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.
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I have clearly seen how My people are being oppressed in Egypt, I have heard their cry, and I have come down to rescue them, and now I will send you to Egypt.'
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"This Moshe, whom they rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and judge?' is the very one whom God sent as both ruler and ransomer by means of the angel that appeared to him in the thorn bush.
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This man led them out, performing miracles and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
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This is the Moshe who said to the people of Isra'el, 'God will raise up a prophet like me from among your brothers'
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This is the man who was in the assembly in the wilderness, accompanied by the angel that had spoken to him at Mount Sinai and by our fathers, the man who was given living words to pass on to us.