#ScriptureReflection - Acts of the Apostles 7:23-34 (5.28.22)

 ²³  “When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. ²⁴  He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. ²⁵  Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not. ²⁶  The next day Moses came upon two Israelites who were fighting. He tried to reconcile them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?’

²⁷  “But the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us? ²⁸  Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ ²⁹  When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons.

30   “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai. ³¹  When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to get a closer look, he heard the Lord say: ³²  ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.

³³  “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. ³⁴  I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’


Source: NIV (New International Version)