Moses Flees Pharaoh
1530 BC, lasting 40 years traditional (Jones)
- Passage
- Exod 2:11-15
- Place
- Midian
- Before
- Birth of Moses
- After
- Birth of Caleb
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Every verse
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Exodus5 verses
- 2:11
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
- 2:12
After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
- 2:13
The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”
- 2:14
But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”
- 2:15
When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.