28Will you put me to death as you did the Egyptian yesterday?
29And at these words, Moses went in flight to the land of Midian, and was living there for a time, and had two sons.
30At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.
31And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,
32I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.
33And the Lord said, Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.
34Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt.