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that they might not live.
20 At which time Moses was born, and he was beautiful before God. And he was nursed three months in
his father s house;
21 but when he was exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up and nursed him as a son for herself.
22 And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and
deeds.
23 But when the time of forty years was completed for him, it came into his heart to look after his
brethren, the sons of Israel.
24 And, seeing one unjustly treated, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed by smiting
the Egyptian.
25 And he thought that his brethren would understand that God, through his hand, was giving salvation
to them; but they understood not.
26 And on the following day he showed himself to them as they fought, and urged them to peace,
saying: Men, you are brethren: why treat one another unjustly?
27 But he that treated his neighbor unjustly thrust him away, saying: Who appointed thee ruler and judge
over us?
28 Wilt thou kill me as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday?
29 And at that saying Moses fled and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begot two
sons.
30 And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an
angel in flaming fire of a bush.
31 And Moses, seeing, wondered at the sight; but as he drew near to behold it, there came the voice of
the Lord:
32 I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. And Moses trembled and
ventured not to behold.
33 And the Lord said to him: Loose the sandal of thy feet; for the place on which thou standest is holy
ground.
34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and their groaning have I heard, and I
have come down to deliver them; and now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
35 This Moses, whom they denied, saying: Who appointed thee ruler and judge? this man God sent both
as ruler and deliverer, with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.
36 This man led them out after having performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red
sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37 This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel: A prophet shall God raise up for you from among
your brethren, like me.
38 This is he that was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel that spoke to him in the mount
Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the living oracles to give to us,
39 to whom our fathers would not become obedient, but thrust him away and turned in their heart to
Egypt,
40 saying to Aaron: Make us gods that shall go before us; for this Moses, who brought us out of the land
of Egypt, we know not what has become of him.
41 And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their
hands.
42 But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the
prophets: Victims and sacrifices did you offer to me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel,
43 and did you take up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of the god Remphan, the images that you
made to worship? and I will remove you beyond Babylon.
44 Our fathers in the wilderness had the tabernacle of testimony, as he had appointed who spoke to
Moses that he should make it according to the pattern which he had seen;
45 which also our fathers received and brought in with Joshua, when they took possession of the nations,
whom God thrust out from the face of our fathers till the days of David:
46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked that he might find a dwelling for the house of Jacob.
47 But Solomon built him a house.
48 However, the Most High dwells not in places made with hands, as says the prophet:
49 Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of a house will you build for me, says
the Lord, or what the place of my rest?
50 Did not my hand make all these things?
51 Stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit, as your fathers,
also you.
52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who foretold concerning
the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers:
53 who received the law as the arrangements of angels, and have not kept it.
54 And hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts, and gnashed upon him with their teeth.
55 But being full of the Holy Spirit, he looked up into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus
standing at the right hand of God;
56 and he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.
57 And having cried with a loud voice, they stopped their ears and rushed with one accord upon him,
58 and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid off their clothes at the
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