When he saw one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian.
One day after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
He looked this way and that, and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
“When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his kinfolk, the Israelites.
He supposed that his kinsfolk would understand that God through him was rescuing them, but they did not understand.
Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’