Acts 7:17-36

New King James Version

God Delivers Israel by Moses

¹⁷ “But when ^(A)the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, ^(B)the people grew and multiplied in Egypt ¹⁸ till another king ^(C)arose who did not know Joseph. ¹⁹ This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, ^(D)making them expose their babies, so that they might not live. ^20 (E)At this time Moses was born, and ^(F)was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father’s house for three months. ²¹ But ^(G)when he was set out, ^(H)Pharaoh’s daughter took him away and brought him up as her own son. ²² And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was ^(I)mighty in words and deeds.

^23 (J)“Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. ²⁴ And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian. ²⁵ For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand. ²⁶ And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?’ ²⁷ But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ^(K)‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸ Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’ ^29 (L)Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he ^(M)had two sons.

^30 (N)“And when forty years had passed, an Angel ^[a]of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai. ³¹ When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to observe, the voice of the Lord came to him, ³² saying, ^(O)‘I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and dared not look. ^33 (P)‘Then the Lord said to him, “Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. ³⁴ I have surely ^(Q)seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will ^(R)send you to Egypt.” ’

³⁵ “This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ^(S)‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer ^(T)by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush. ^36 (U)He brought them out, after he had ^(V)shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, ^(W)and in the Red Sea, ^(X)and in the wilderness forty years.