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.*
They said, *Stand back!* They said, *This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!* They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.
is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must needs make yourself also a prince over us?
and they assembled themselves together against Moshe and against Aharon, and said to them, You take too much on you, seeing all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and the LORD is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of the LORD?
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.