007:019 He adopted a crafty policy towards our race, and oppressed
our forefathers, making them cast out their infants so that they
might not be permitted to live.
007:020 At this time Moses was born--a wonderfully beautiful child;
and for three months he was cared for in his father's house.
007:021 At length he was cast out, but Pharaoh's daughter adopted him,
and brought him up as her own son.
007:022 So Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians,
and possessed great influence through his eloquence
and his achievements.
007:023 "And when he was just forty years old, it occurred to him
to visit his brethren the descendants of Israel.
007:024 Seeing one of them wrongfully treated he took his part,
and secured justice for the ill-treated man by striking
down the Egyptian.
007:025 He supposed his brethren to be aware that by him God was sending
them deliverance; this, however, they did not understand.
007:026 The next day, also, he came and found two of them fighting,
and he endeavoured to make peace between them. "`Sirs,' he said,
`you are brothers. Why are you wronging one another?'
007:027 "But the man who was doing the wrong resented his interference,
and asked, "`Who appointed you magistrate and judge over us?
007:028 Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
007:029 "Alarmed at this question, Moses fled from the country and went
to live in the land of Midian. There he became the father
of two sons.
007:030 "But at the end of forty years there appeared to him in the Desert
of Mount Sinai an angel in the middle of a flame of fire
in a bush.
007:031 When Moses saw this he wondered at the sight; but on his going