Acts 7:17-29

17“As the time was approaching to fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people flourished and multiplied in Egypt

18until a different king who did not know Joseph ruled over Egypt.

19He dealt deceitfully with our race and oppressed our ancestors by making them abandon their infants outside so that they wouldn’t survive.

20At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. He was cared for in his father’s home for three months.

21When he was put outside, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted and raised him as her own son.

22So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his speech and actions.

23“When he was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites.

24When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.

25He assumed his people would understand that God would give them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

26The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other? ’

27“But the one who was mistreating his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying: Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?

28Do you want to kill me, the same way you killed the Egyptian yesterday?

29“When he heard this, Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.