Acts 7:20–45

²⁰In which time ^xMoses was born, and was ^||exceeding ^yfair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months: ²¹And ^zwhen he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. ²²And Moses was learned in all ^athe wisdom of the Egyptians, and was ^bmighty in words and in deeds. ²³And when he was full forty years old, ^cit came into his heart ^dto visit his brethren the children of Israel. ²⁴And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: ^25||For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not. ^26eAnd the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another? ²⁷But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, ^fWho made thee a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday? ^29gThen fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, ^hwhere he begat two sons. ³⁰And when forty years were expired, ⁱthere appeared to him in the wilderness ^kof mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. ³¹When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to ^lbehold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, ³²Saying, ^mI am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then ⁿMoses trembled, and durst not ^lbehold. ³³Then said the Lord to him, ^oPut off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground. ^34pI have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. ³⁵This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer ^qby the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. ^36rHe brought them out, after that he had shewed ^swonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and ^tin the Red sea, and ^uin the wilderness ^wforty years. ³⁷This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, ^xA prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, ^||like unto me; him shall ye hear. ³⁸This is he, ^ythat was in the ^zchurch in the wilderness with ^athe angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: ^bwho received the lively ^coracles to give unto us: ³⁹To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts ^dturned back again into Egypt, ⁴⁰Saying unto Aaron, ^eMake us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. ⁴¹And ^fthey made a calf in those days, and ^foffered sacrifice unto the idol, and ^grejoiced in ^hthe works of their own hands. ⁴²Then God ⁱturned, and ^jgave them up to worship ^kthe host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ^lO ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? ⁴³Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of ^mMoloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will ⁿcarry you away beyond Babylon. ⁴⁴Our fathers had ^othe tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, ^||speaking unto Moses, ^pthat he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. ⁴⁵Which also our fathers ^||that came after ^qbrought in with ^rJesus into the possession of the Gentiles, ^swhom God drave out before the face of our fathers, ^tunto the days of David;