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Moses Flees to Midian

11 Now it came to pass in those days, awhen Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.  
12 So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he akilled the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.  
13 And awhen he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men bwere fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, “Why are you striking your companion?”  
14 Then he said, a“Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” So Moses bfeared and said, “Surely this thing is known!”  
15 When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But aMoses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of bMidian; and he sat down by ca well.  
16 aNow the priest of Midian had seven daughters. bAnd they came and drew water, and they filled the ctroughs to water their father’s flock.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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two men of the Hebrews strove together—His benevolent mediation in this strife, though made in the kindest and mildest manner, was resented, and the taunt of the aggressor showing that Moses' conduct on the preceding day had become generally known, he determined to consult his safety by immediate flight (Hebrews 11:27). These two incidents prove that neither were the Israelites yet ready to go out of Egypt, nor Moses prepared to be their leader (James 1:20). It was by the staff and not the sword—by the meekness, and not the wrath of Moses that God was to accomplish that great work of deliverance. Both he and the people of Israel were for forty years more to be cast into the furnace of affliction, yet it was therein that He had chosen them (Isaiah 48:10).




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