22 Moses was given the best education in Egypt. He was a strong man and a powerful speaker.
23 When Moses was forty years old, he wanted to help the Israelites because they were his own people.
24 One day he saw an Egyptian ill-treating one of them. So he rescued the man and killed the Egyptian.
25 Moses thought the rest of his people would realize that God was going to use him to set them free. But they didn't understand.
26 The next day Moses saw two of his own people fighting, and he tried to make them stop. He said, “Men, you are both Israelites. Why are you so cruel to each other?”
27 But the man who had started the fight pushed Moses aside and asked, “Who made you our ruler and judge?
28 Are you going to kill me, just as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?”