Acts 7:17-29

17“But as the 1time of the promise which God had assured to Abraham was approaching, 2the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, 18until 3another king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. 19It was he who 4shrewdly took advantage of our nation and mistreated our fathers in order that they would 5abandon their infants in the Nile, so that they would not survive. 20At this time 6Moses was born; and he was beautiful to God. He was nurtured for three months in his father’s home. 21And after he had been put outside, 7Pharaoh’s daughter 8took him away and nurtured him as her own son. 22Moses was educated in all 9the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was proficient in 10speaking and action. 23But when he was approaching the age of forty, 11it entered his 12mind to visit his countrymen, the sons of Israel. 24And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended and took vengeance for the oppressed man by fatally striking the Egyptian. 25And he thought that his brothers understood that God was granting them 13deliverance 14through him; but they did not understand. 2615And on the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting each other, and he tried to reconcile them to peace, by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers, why are you injuring each other?’ 27But the one who was injuring his neighbor pushed him away, saying, ‘16Who made you a ruler and judge over us? 2817You do not intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’ 29At this remark, 18Moses fled and became a stranger in the land of 19Midian, where he 20fathered two sons.