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"Alarmed at this question, Moses fled from the country and went to live in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.
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"But at the end of forty years there appeared to him in the Desert of Mount Sinai an angel in the middle of a flame of fire in a bush.
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When Moses saw this he wondered at the sight; but on his going up to look further, the voice of the Lord was heard, saying,
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"`I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob.' "Quaking with fear Moses did not dare gaze.
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"`Take off your shoes,' said the Lord, `for the spot on which you are standing is holy ground.
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I have seen, yes, I have seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them. And now I will send you to Egypt.'
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"The Moses whom they rejected, asking him, `Who appointed you magistrate and judge?' --that same Moses we find God sending as a magistrate and a deliverer by the help of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
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This was he who brought them out, after performing marvels and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the Desert for forty years.
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This is the Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, "`God will raise up a Prophet for you, from among your brethren, just as He raised me up.'
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`This is he who was among the Congregation in the Desert, together with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our forefathers, who received ever-living utterances to hand on to us.
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"Our forefathers, however, would not submit to him, but spurned his authority and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.