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Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine sixty six. Today,

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Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the Book

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Speaker 1: of Exodus, continuing on from chapter two. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Kristensen. We're going

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Speaker 1: to continue on with Moses' story talking about Moses as

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Speaker 1: an adult, but first a word from this sponsor, so

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Speaker 1: we're going to pick this up. In verse eleven of

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Speaker 1: chapter two, Moses flees to Midian, so his childhood is

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Speaker 1: over and Moses is now grown up. One day, after

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Speaker 1: Moses had grown up, he went out to where his

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Speaker 1: He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his

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Speaker 1: who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you

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Speaker 1: thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian. Then

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Speaker 1: Moses was afraid and thought what I did must have

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Speaker 1: become known. When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to

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Speaker 1: kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to

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Speaker 1: live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. Now,

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Speaker 1: a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came

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Speaker 1: he asked them, why have you returned so early today?

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Speaker 1: They answered, An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He

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Speaker 1: where is he? Ruel asked his daughters, why did you

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Speaker 1: leave him? Invite him to have something to eat. Moses

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Speaker 1: agreed to stay with a man who gave his daughter, Zipporah,

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Speaker 1: to Moses in marriage. Zipporah gave birth to a son,

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Speaker 1: and Moses named him Gersham, saying, I have become a

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Speaker 1: He is not taking part in that. He hasn't had

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Speaker 1: He would have been told that by people around him.

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Speaker 1: kills him, which is not great. I remember when I

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Speaker 1: was doing chaplain ministry to youth in juvenile hall, and

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Speaker 1: I mentioned in a sermon of my church three people

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Speaker 1: them were murderers. Now, we're not encouraging people to do that.

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Speaker 1: But the surprising thing is that even after that terrible act,

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Speaker 1: see that Moses his story doesn't end here. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: But there's other things going on. The King of Egypt

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Speaker 1: continue on to Moses and the Burning Bush Chapter three. Now,

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Speaker 1: Moses was tending the flock of jeth Throw, his father

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Speaker 1: the mountain of God. There, the Angel of the Lord

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Speaker 1: appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush.

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Speaker 1: Moses saw that though the bush was on fire, it

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Speaker 1: Moses and Moses said, here I am, do not come

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Speaker 1: I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham,

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Speaker 1: this Moses hid his face because he was afraid to

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Speaker 1: You would think, from the way this appears in the

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Speaker 1: it continues. The Lord said, I've indeed seen the misery

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Speaker 1: the Kenaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Parizites, Hibites, and Jebusites. And now

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Speaker 1: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you

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Speaker 1: to actually plunder the people of Egypt. They're going to

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Speaker 1: of that will happen, but we'll see how as we

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Speaker 1: continue this story next week and With that, we're going

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Speaker 1: to end this episode of the Bible Study Podcast. If

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