Aptus bible5/8/2023 ![]() 36He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. Come now, I will send you toģ5 “It was this Moses whom they rejected when they said, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ and whom God now sent as both ruler and liberator through the angel 34I have surely seen the mistreatment of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. 33Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. 31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight and as he approached to look, there came the voice of the Lord: 32‘I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look. There he became the father of two sons.ģ0 “Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. 26The next day he came to some of them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers why do you wrong each other?’ 27But the man who was wronging his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? 28Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ 29When he heard this, Moses fled and became a resident alien in the land of Midian. ![]() ![]() 25He supposed that his kinsfolk would understand that God through him was rescuing them, but they did not understand. 24When he saw one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. 22So Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.Ģ3 “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his relatives, the Israelites. For three months he was brought up in his father’s house 21and when he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. 20At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful before God. 19He dealt craftily with our race and forced our ancestors to abandon their infants so that they would die. He himself died there as well as our ancestors, 16and their bodies were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.ġ7 “But as the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise that God had made to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased and multiplied 18until another king who had not known Joseph ruled over Egypt. 14Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five in all 15so Jacob went down to Egypt. 13On the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh. 12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there on their first visit. 11Now there came a famine throughout Egypt and Canaan, and great suffering, and our ancestors could find no food. ![]() And so Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day and Isaac became the father of Jacob,ĩ “The patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt but God was with him, 10and rescued him from all his afflictions, and enabled him to win favor and to show wisdom when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler overĮgypt and over all his household. ![]() 7‘But I will judge the nation that they serve,’ said God, ”and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.’ 8Then he gave him the covenant of circumcision. 6And God spoke in these terms, that his descendants would be resident aliens in a country belonging to others, who would enslave them and mistreat them during four 5He did not give him any of it as a heritage, not even a foot’s length, but promised to give it to him as his possession and to his descendants after him, even though After his father died, God had him move from there to this country in which you are now living. The God of glory appeared to our ancestor Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, 3and said to him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you.’ 4Then he left the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. Then the high priest asked him, “Are these things so?” 2And Stephen replied: ![]()
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