The account of Moses emphasizes God's appointment alongside repeated resistance, developing the pattern behind Stephen's answer to his accusers.

1. 7:17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
2. 7:18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
3. 7:19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
4. 7:20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
5. 7:21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
6. 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
7. 7:23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
8. 7:24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
9. 7:25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
10. 7:26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
11. 7:27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
12. 7:28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
13. 7:29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
14. 7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
15. 7:31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,
16. 7:32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
17. 7:33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
18. 7:34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
19. 7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
20. 7:36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
21. 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
22. 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
23. 7:39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
24. 7:40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
25. 7:41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
26. 7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
27. 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.