Acts 7:6-30
English Standard Version
Chapter 7
6And God spoke to this effect — that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years. 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.’ 8And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
9"And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
10and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
11Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.
12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.
13And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph 's family became known to Pharaoh.
14And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.
15And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers,
16and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
17"But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt
18until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph.
19He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.
20At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God 's sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father 's house,
21and when he was exposed, Pharaoh 's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
22And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
23"When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
24And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian.
25He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand.
26And on the following day he appeared to 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 thrust him aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
28Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
29At this retort Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
