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An older white-haired Moses kneeling by a burning bush, with sandals and staff set aside.
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Acts 7:30-35

The Bush and the Rejected Deliverer

Stephen's Witness · Acts 7

Story guide: Stephen recalls God calling Moses at the burning bush and sending the rejected man as ruler and deliverer. This image illustrates his historical account.

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30And after forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire from a bush.

31When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight. And as he came near to look closely, a voice of the Lord came:

32I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. Then Moses became terrified and did not dare to look closely.

33Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.’

34I have surely seen the mistreatment of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.

35This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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