And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking the Egyptian.
One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his 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 brethren, the sons of Israel.
He supposed that his brethren understood that God was giving them deliverance by his hand, but they did not understand.
Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’