Exodus 2:12
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| Overview - Exodus 2 | |
| 1 | Moses is born, and in an ark cast into the flags. |
| 5 | He is found, and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter; |
| 7 | who employs his mother to nurse him. |
| 11 | He slays an Egyptian. |
| 13 | He reproves an Hebrew. |
| 15 | He flees into Midian, and marries Zipporah. |
| 22 | Gershom is born. |
| 23 | God respects the Israelites' cry. |
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Exodus 2:12 (King James Version)
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
- he looked
- Acts 7:24-26
- slew
- If the Egyptian killed the Hebrew, Moses only acted agreeably to the divine law ( Genesis 9:6 )in thus slaying the Egyptian; nor did he violate the law of Egypt; for, according to Diodorus Siculus (1
- 1. 17), "he who saw a man killed, or violently assaulted on the highway, and did not rescue him, if he could, was punished with death." Moses, therefore, in this transaction, acted as a brave and good man; especially as at this time there was little probability of obtaining justice on an Egyptian murderer.