Exodus 2:12 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 2:12

After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

BSB

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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.

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.

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Commentary

4 voices

Ambrose of Milan

On Cain and Abel 2.4.14 (397)

Moses indeed killed the Egyptian and became a fugitive from the land of Egypt, in order to avoid the tyrant of that land. But he would not have killed that Egyptian man before he had first killed the Egyptian man of spiritual wickedness within himself, and had renounced the luxury of regal honors, considering the reproach of Christ a greater inheritance than the treasures of Egypt.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

He slew the Egyptian - Probably it was one of the Egyptian task-masters, whom he found abusing his Hebrew slave. By special warrant from heaven (which makes not a precedent in ordinary cases) Moses slew the Egyptian, and rescued his oppressed brother.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The slaying of the Egyptian is not to be justified, or attributed to a divine inspiration, but it is to be judged with reference to the provocation, the impetuosity of Moses’ natural character, perhaps also to the habits developed by his training at the court of Pharaoh. The act involved a complete severance from the Egyptians, but, far from expediting, it delayed for many years the deliverance of the Israelites. Forty years of a very different training prepared Moses for the execution of that appointed work.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּ֤פֶן	vai.Yi.fen	and he turned	H6437 →
כֹּה֙	koh	thus	H3541 →
וָכֹ֔ה	va.Khoh	and thus	H3541 →
וַיַּ֖רְא	vai.Yar'	and he saw	H7200 →
כִּ֣י	ki	that	H3588 →
אֵ֣ין	'ein	there not	H369 →
אִ֑ישׁ	'Ish	[was] a person	H376 →
וַיַּךְ֙	vai.yaKh	and he struck down	H5221 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַמִּצְרִ֔י	ha.mitz.Ri	the Egyptian	H4713 →
וַֽיִּטְמְנֵ֖הוּ	vai.yit.me.Ne.hu	and he hid him	H2934 →
בַּחֽוֹל׃	ba.Chol	in the sand	H2344 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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