Acts of the Apostles
The Acts of our fathers the apostles, may their blessings be with us.
Acts 7 : 23 - 34
Chapter 7
| 23 | "Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
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| 24 | And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.
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| 25 | For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.
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| 26 | And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, "Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?'
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| 27 | But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, "Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
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| 28 | Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?'
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| 29 | Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.
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| 30 | "And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.
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| 31 | When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to observe, the voice of the Lord came to him,
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| 32 | saying, "I am the God of your fathers--the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and dared not look.
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| 33 | "Then the LORD said to him, "Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
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| 34 | I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt."'
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The word of the Lord shall grow, multiply, be mighty, and be confirmed, in the holy Church of God.
Amen.
