out our fathers the first time.
007:013 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers,
and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.
007:014 Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all
his relatives, seventy-five souls.
007:015 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,
007:016 and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb
that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children
of Hamor of Shechem.
007:017 "But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn
to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
007:018 until there arose a different king, who didn't know Joseph.
007:019 The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers,
and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they
wouldn't stay alive.
007:020 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome.
He was nourished three months in his father's house.
007:021 When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up,
and reared him as her own son.
007:022 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.
He was mighty in his words and works.
007:023 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit
his brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where the context
allows may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters"
or "siblings."}, the children of Israel.
007:024 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged
him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.
007:025 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand,
was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.
007:026 "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged
them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers.
Why do you wrong one another?'
007:027 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying,
'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
007:028 Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'{Exodus
2:14}
007:029 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land
of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
007:030 "When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared
to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire
in a bush.
007:031 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close
to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,
007:032 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'{Exodus 3:6} Moses trembled,
and dared not look.
007:033 The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet,
for the place where you stand is holy ground.
007:034 I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt,
and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them.
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