‘Do you want to kill me, just as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?’
The man answered, “Who made you our ruler and judge? Are you going to kill me just as you killed that Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and said to himself, “People have found out what I have done.”
And we had hoped that he would be the one who was going to set Israel free! Besides all that, this is now the third day since it happened.
He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his help and took revenge on the Egyptian by killing him. (