30. “After 40 years Moses was in the desert near Mount Sinai. An angel appeared to him in the flames of a burning bush.
31. When Moses saw this, he was amazed. He went near to look closer at it. Moses heard the Lord’s voice.
32. The Lord said, ‘I am the God of your ancestors. I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses began to shake with fear and was afraid to look.
33. The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals. You are standing on holy ground.
34. I have seen the troubles my people have suffered in Egypt. I have heard their cries. I have come down to save them. And now, Moses, I am sending you back to Egypt.’
35. “This Moses was the same man the Jews said they did not want. They had said to him, ‘Who made you our ruler and judge?’ Moses is the same man God sent to be a ruler and savior, with the help of an angel. This was the angel Moses saw in the burning bush.