Acts 7:15-30

New American Standard Bible

¹⁵And ^(A)Jacob went down to Egypt, and he and our fathers died there. ¹⁶And they were brought back from there to ^[a]^(B)Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of ^[b]Hamor in ^[c]Shechem.

¹⁷“But as the ^(C)time of the promise which God had assured to Abraham was approaching, ^(D)the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, ¹⁸until ^(E)another king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. ¹⁹It was he who ^(F)shrewdly took advantage of our nation and mistreated our fathers in order that they would ^(G)abandon their infants in the Nile, so that they would not survive. ²⁰At this time ^(H)Moses was born; and he was beautiful to God. He was nurtured for three months in his father’s home. ²¹And after he had been put outside, ^(I)Pharaoh’s daughter ^[d]took him away and nurtured him as her own son. ²²Moses was educated in all ^(J)the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was proficient in ^[e]speaking and action. ²³But when he was approaching the age of forty, ^(K)it entered his ^[f]mind to visit his countrymen, the sons of Israel. ²⁴And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended and took vengeance for the oppressed man by fatally striking the Egyptian. ²⁵And he thought that his brothers understood that God was granting them ^[g]deliverance ^[h]through him; but they did not understand. ²⁶^(L)And on the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting each other, and he tried to reconcile them to peace, by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers, why are you injuring each other?’ ²⁷But the one who was injuring his neighbor pushed him away, saying, ‘^(M)Who made you a ruler and judge over us? ²⁸^(N)You do not intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’ ²⁹At this remark, ^(O)Moses fled and became a stranger in the land of ^[i]Midian, where he ^(P)fathered two sons.