And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian:
And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
and he supposed that his brethren understood how that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not.
Wouldest thou kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?