28. ‘Do you wish to kill me as you killed the Mitsrite yesterday?’
29. “And at this saying, Mosheh fled and became a sojourner in the land of Miḏyan, where he fathered two sons.
30. “And after forty years were completed, a Messenger of יהוה appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.
31. “And Mosheh, seeing it, marvelled at the sight, and coming near to look, the voice of יהוה came to him,
32. saying, ‘I am the Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Aḇraham and the Elohim of Yitsḥaq and the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ.’ And Mosheh trembled and did not have the courage to look.
33. ‘But יהוה said to him, “Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is set-apart ground.
34. “I have certainly seen the evil treatment of my people who are in Mitsrayim, and I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, let Me send you to Mitsrayim.” ’
35. “This Mosheh whom they had refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ – this one Elohim sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Messenger who appeared to him in the bush.
36. “This one led them out, after he had done wonders and signs in the land of Mitsrayim, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37. “This is the Mosheh who said to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘יהוה your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers. Him you shall hear.’
38. “This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the Messenger who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living Words to give to us,
39. unto whom our fathers would not become obedient, but thrust away, and in their hearts they turned back to Mits-rayim,
40. saying to Aharon, ‘Make us mighty ones to go before us, for this Mosheh who led us out of the land of Mitsrayim, we do not know what has become of him.’
41. “And they made a calf in those days, and brought an offering to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their own hands.
42. “So Elohim turned and gave them up to worship the host of the heaven, as it has been written in the book of the Prophets, ‘Did you bring slaughtered beasts and offerings unto Me during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Yisra’ĕl?