Exodus 2:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He looked this way and that and saw that no one was there, and then he attacked the Egyptian and concealed the body in the sand.

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  • Acts 7:24-26 : 24 When he saw one of them being hurt unfairly, Moses came to his defense and avenged the person who was mistreated by striking down the Egyptian. 25 He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand. 26 The next day Moses saw two men fighting, and tried to make peace between them, saying,‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’

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  • 11 The Presumption of the Deliverer In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.

  • Exod 2:13-15
    3 verses
    81%

    13 When he went out the next day, there were two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the one who was in the wrong,“Why are you attacking your fellow Hebrew?”

    14 The man replied,“Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking,“Surely what I did has become known.”

    15 When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.

  • Acts 7:21-24
    4 verses
    80%

    21 and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

    22 So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.

    23 But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

    24 When he saw one of them being hurt unfairly, Moses came to his defense and avenged the person who was mistreated by striking down the Egyptian.

  • Acts 7:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

    28 You don’t want to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’

    29 When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

  • 21 He also killed an impressive-looking Egyptian. The Egyptian wielded a spear, while Benaiah attacked him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

  • 19 The LORD said to Moses in Midian,“Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

  • 3 (Now the LORD granted the people favor with the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, respected by Pharaoh’s servants and by the Egyptian people.)

  • 12 Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

  • Num 35:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22 “But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,

    23 or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm,

  • 23 By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

  • 24 Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the LORD met Moses and sought to kill him.

  • Exod 5:20-21
    2 verses
    68%

    20 When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,

    21 and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”

  • 4 When the LORD saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said,“Moses, Moses!” And Moses said,“Here I am.”

  • 20 “But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies,

  • 1 Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

  • 31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

  • 12 When the Egyptians see you they will say,‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will keep you alive.

  • 12 Why should the Egyptians say,‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.

  • 37 He found another man and said,“Wound me!” So the man wounded him severely.

  • 28 Pharaoh said to him,“Go from me! Watch out for yourself! Do not appear before me again, for when you see my face you will die!”

  • 10 You must stone him to death because he tried to entice you away from the LORD your God, who delivered you from the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.

  • 27 By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

  • 13 Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

  • 13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 26 But Moses said,“That would not be the right thing to do, for the sacrifices we make to the LORD our God would be an abomination to the Egyptians. If we make sacrifices that are an abomination to the Egyptians right before their eyes, will they not stone us?

  • 23 Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • 3 The LORD said,“Throw it to the ground.” So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it.

  • 19 They said,“An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”