En dag da Moses var blitt voksen, gikk han ut til sine landsmenn og så på deres slit. Han så at en egypter slo en hebreer, en av hans egne.
And it cometh to pass, in those days, that Moses is grown, and he goeth out unto his brethren, and looketh on their burdens, and seeth a man, an Egyptian, smiting a man, a Hebrew, `one' of his brethren,