[2:11] 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.
[2:12] He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
[2:13] When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?”
[2:14] He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.”
[2:15] When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.
[2:16] Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
[2:17] The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock.
[2:18] When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?”
[2:19] They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
[2:20] He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”
[2:21] And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.
[2:22] She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”