12Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.


In Context

9 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you." So the woman took the baby and nursed him.

10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, "I drew him out of the water."

11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

12 Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?"

14 The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and thought, "What I did must have become known."

Exodus 2:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:12And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:12And when he had looked about this way and that way, and saw no one there, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:12And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12And he turned this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:12And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12and he turneth hither and thither, and seeth that there is no man, and smiteth the Egyptian, and hideth him in the sand.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:12And 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.