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?”
29 When Moses heard this, he ran away to live in the country of Midian. His two sons were born there.
30 Forty years later, an angel appeared to Moses from a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.