Bible verse
After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
Exodus 2:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Exodus 2.
8 “Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.
9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.
10 When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
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.
12 After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
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?”
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.”
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.
16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
KJV
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that [there was] no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
ASV
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
ERV
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
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