Acts 7:19–27
19The same took advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.↗
20At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome to God. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.↗
21When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.↗
22Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.↗
23But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.↗
24Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.↗
25He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.↗
26“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?’↗
27But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?↗
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