18. even until another king, who did not know Joseph, rose up in Egypt.
19. This one, encompassing our kindred, afflicted our fathers, so that they would expose their infants, lest they be kept alive.
20. In the same time, Moses was born. And he was in the grace of God, and he was nourished for three months in the house of his father.
21. Then, having been abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh took him in, and she raised him as her own son.
22. And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. And he was mighty in his words and in his deeds.
23. But when forty years of age were completed in him, it rose up in his heart that he should visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.
24. And when he had seen a certain one suffering injury, he defended him. And striking the Egyptian, he wrought a retribution for him who was enduring the injury.
25. Now he supposed that his brothers would understand that God would grant them salvation through his hand. But they did not understand it.
26. So truly, on the following day, he appeared before those who were arguing, and he would have reconciled them in peace, saying, 'Men, you are brothers. So why would you harm one another?'
27. But he who was causing the injury to his neighbor rejected him, saying: 'Who has appointed you as leader and judge over us?
28. Could it be that you want to kill me, in the same way that you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
29. Then, at this word, Moses fled. And he became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he produced two sons.
30. And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him, in the desert of Mount Sinai, an Angel, in a flame of fire in a bush.
31. And upon seeing this, Moses was amazed at the sight. And as he drew near in order to gaze at it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying:
32. 'I am the God of your fathers: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' And Moses, being made to tremble, did not dare to look.
33. But the Lord said to him: 'Loosen the shoes from your feet. For the place in which you stand is holy ground.