After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.

But God spoke as follows: ‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

But the Lord said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

‘Heaven is my throne, and earth is the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is my resting place?

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.