See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
He said, *Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?* Moshe was afraid, and said, *Surely this thing is known.*
When he had come into the temple, the chief Kohanim and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, *By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?*
*This Moshe, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'--God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.