Exodus 2:12
He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
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- Acts 7:24-26 : 24 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian. 25 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand. 26 "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'
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11It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
- Exod 2:13-153 verses81%
13He went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"
14He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."
15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
- Acts 7:21-244 verses80%
21When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.
22Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
23But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, the children of Israel.
24Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.
- Acts 7:28-292 verses75%
28Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
29Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
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21He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.
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19Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."
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3Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
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12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
- Num 35:22-232 verses69%
22But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,
23or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;
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23By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
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24It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met him and wanted to kill him.
- Exod 5:20-212 verses68%
20They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
21and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."
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4When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am."
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20If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,
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1Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.
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31When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,
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12It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
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12Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.
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37Then he found another man, and said, Please strike me. The man struck him, smiting and wounding him.
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28Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"
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10You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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27By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
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13Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;
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13Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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26Moses said, "It isn't appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God. Behold, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and won't they stone us?
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23Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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3He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.
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19They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."