Today is the 26th day of January. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I'm Brian. It is great to be here with you today as we gather around the global campfire

and take the next step forward together.

And we've taken all of these steps that have led us to this point,

which yesterday allowed us to conclude our first book on the journey.

That was the book of Genesis. And we began the book of Exodus yesterday.

And talked about that a little bit. And even in our first reading in the book of Exodus,

we met this baby boy. His name is Moses.

He's an important person in the biblical narrative.

And so he's just a baby boy and he's being raised up in Pharaoh's daughters home.

He's adopted him. We sort of see this dynamic as he's a child.

We're going to pick up the story from there. Getting to know Moses.

Getting to know his life will be journeying with Moses for quite some time.

And so let's dive in Exodus, chapter 2, verse 11 through 3, verse 22 today.

One day, after Moses had become an adult, he went out among his people

and he saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

He looked around to make sure no one else was there. Then he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

When Moses went out the next day, he saw two Hebrew men fighting each other.

Moses said to the one who had started the fight,

why are you abusing your fellow Hebrew? He replied, who made you a boss or judge over us?

You planning to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?

And Moses was afraid when he realized they obviously know what I did.

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