^{30 Ref} At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.

^{31 Ref} And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,

^{32 Ref} I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.

^{33 Ref} And the Lord said, Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.