The Rejection and Flight of Moses

When Moses is forty, he goes to visit the children of Israel and sees one of them being mistreated. He avenges the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian and assumes his brothers will understand that God is giving them deliverance through him, but they do not.

W²³hen Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. ²⁴And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him. ²⁵He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.

The next day Moses tries to reconcile two Israelites, but the aggressor rejects him with the question of who made him ruler and judge and recalls the Egyptian's death. At that word Moses flees to Midian, where he lives as a foreigner and has two sons.

²⁶The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’ ²⁷But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us? ²⁸Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ ²⁹At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.