#ScriptureReflection - Acts of the Apostles 7:11-29 (5.3.22)

 ¹¹  “Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers could find no food. ¹²  But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time. ¹³  On the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family was disclosed to Pharaoh. ¹⁴  Then Joseph sent word and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five persons in all. ¹⁵  And Jacob went down to Egypt and there he and our fathers died. ¹⁶  From there they were removed to Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

¹⁷  “But as the time of the promise was approaching which God had assured to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, ¹⁸  until there arose another king over Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph. ¹⁹  It was he who took shrewd advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers so that they would expose their infants and they would not survive. ²⁰  It was at this time that Moses was born; and he was lovely in the sight of God, and he was nurtured three months in his father’s home. ²¹  And after he had been set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him away and nurtured him as her own son. ²²  Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds. ²³  But when he was approaching the age of forty, it entered his mind to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel. ²⁴  And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed by striking down the Egyptian. ²⁵  And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance through him, but they did not understand. ²⁶  On the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting together, and he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren, why do you injure one another?’ ²⁷  But the one who was injuring his neighbor pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us? ²⁸  You do not mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’ ²⁹  At this remark, Moses fled and became an alien in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

Source: 1995NASB (1995 New American Standard Bible)