27 The man who was hurting the other one pushed Moses away and said to him, ‘Did anyone say you could be our ruler and judge?
28 Will you kill me just as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?’
29 When Moses heard him say this, he left Egypt. He went to live in the land of Midian, where he was a stranger. During the time he lived there, he had two sons.
30 “Forty years later Moses was in the desert near Mount Sinai. An angel appeared to him in the flame of a burning bush.
31 When Moses saw this, he was amazed. He went near to look closer at it. He heard a voice; it was the Lord’s.
32 The Lord said, ‘I am the same God your ancestors had—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Moses began to shake with fear. He was afraid to look at the bush.
33 “The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, because the place where you are now standing is holy ground.