Moses Flees to Midian

¹¹ One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people^(A) were and watched them at their hard labor.^(B) He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. ¹² Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. ¹³ The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”^(C)

¹⁴ The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us?^(D) Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”

¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill^(E) Moses, but Moses fled^(F) from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian,^(G) where he sat down by a well.

²² Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,^[a](A) saying, “I have become a foreigner^(B) in a foreign land.”

³ and her two sons.^(A) One son was named Gershom,^[a] for Moses said, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land”;^{(B) 4} and the other was named Eliezer,^[b](C) for he said, “My father’s God was my helper;^(D) he saved me from the sword of Pharaoh.”