Acts 7:17-36 - Moses, A Rejected Savior
17 When the time of God's promise to Abraham drew near, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt. 18 Another king arose. He did not know Joseph. 19 He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our fathers so that they cast out their young children and they did not survive. 20 Moses was born then. He was divinely beautiful. He was nursed three months in his father's house. 21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him and nourished him as her own son. 22 Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
23 When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers the children of Israel. 24 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged the oppressed one by killing the Egyptian. 25 He supposed his brothers would understand how God by his hand would deliver them but they did not understand. 26 The next day he appeared to them while they were fighting. He wanted to unite them and said, 'You are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'
27 The one who was treating his neighbor unjustly pushed him away, saying: 'Who made you our ruler and judge? 28 Will you kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?'
29 When he heard this talk Moses fled and became a stranger in the land of Median, where he became father to two sons. 30 At the end of forty years, Jehovah's angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai in a flame of fire in a bush. (Exodus 3:3) 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. He drew near to look at it and the voice of Jehovah came to him. 32 He said: I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and did not dare to look further.
33 Jehovah said: Take the sandals from your feet for the place where you stand is holy ground. (Exodus 3:5) 34 I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come to deliver them. Come, I will send you into Egypt.
35 This Moses whom they refused, saying: Who made you ruler and judge? God sent him to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush. 36 He brought them out. He showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.