DVP023 Exodus 2:11-12 (January 23)


11 One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.
12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.


This account tells of the events that begin Moses rise as a prophet of God, and as God's deliverer for his people.

Seeing one of his people being assaulted, Moses murders the Egyptian who had done the assaulting and hides the body. Unfortunately for him, he is seen and word travels enough that even his own people know and reject him. Pharaoh sets out to have him killed too.

Moses flees to the land of Midian where he starts a new life as a sheep-herder, marries, and has children. Later he will be called by God to return to Egypt to free his people and to help them return to the land that was promised to Abraham, Isaac, Israel, and the people of their lineage.


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