Acts 7:17-29

17“But when the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt

18till another king arose who did not know Joseph.

19This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, making them expose their babies, so that they might not live.

20At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father’s house for three months.

21But when he was set out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him away and brought him up as her own son.

22And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.

23“Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.

24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.

25For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.

26And 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?’

27But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

28Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’

29Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.