When he saw one of them treated unjustly, he defended and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.
On one occasion, after Moses had grown up, when he had gone out to his kinsmen and witnessed their forced labor, he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his own kinsmen.
Looking about and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
“When he was forty years old, he decided to visit his kinsfolk, the Israelites.
He assumed [his] kinsfolk would understand that God was offering them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.
Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’