He saw one of them being badly treated, so he defended him, struck down the Egyptian, and thus avenged the man who had been wronged.
"Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?"
When he had completed his fortieth year, it occurred to him to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.
(He thought his brothers would understand God was going to bring them deliverance by means of him, but they did not understand.)