(7:17–36) Stephen places Moses’ birth and call within the context of the fulfilment of God’s promise to Abraham (7:17). When a new Pharaoh who did not know Joseph arose in Egypt, he enslaved the Israelites and forced them to expose their infants to death, including Moses. But Pharaoh’s daughter adopted Moses (7:16–22). When Moses was forty he was forced to flee Egypt after it became known that he killed an Egyptian; he settled in Midian, where he started a family of