World English Bible: Acts

7:17 "But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 7:18 until there arose a different king, who didn't know Joseph. 7:19 The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive. 7:20 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house. 7:21 When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son. 7:22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works. 7:23 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. 7:24 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian. 7:25 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand. 7:26 "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?' 7:27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? 7:28 Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?' 7:29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.