Cross Reference EXODUS 2:12 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

{Exodus 2:12} And he looked 6437 z8799 this way 3541 and that way, 3541 and when he saw 7200 z8799 that x3588 [there was] no x369 man, 376 he slew 5221 z8686 x853 the Egyptian, 4713 and hid 2934 z8799 him in the sand. 2344

he looked:
"Andª seeingª ° oneª [of them] suffer wrong,ª ° he defendedª ° [him], andª avengedª ª ° him that was oppressed,ª ° and smoteª ° the¹ Egyptian:ª ... Andª the¹ nextª ° dayª he shewed himselfª ° unto themª as they strove,ª ° andª would have set² ° them² at² one again,ª ¹ ¹ ¹ saying,ª ° Sirs,ª yeª areª ° brethren;ª whyª do ye wrongª ° one to another?ª" {Act 7:24-26}

slew:
If the Egyptian killed the Hebrew, Moses only acted agreeably to the divine law ("Whoso sheddethª ° man'sª blood,ª by manª shall his bloodª be shed:ª ° for¹ in the imageª of Godª madeª ° he¹ man.ª" {Gen 9:6}) in thus slaying the Egyptian; nor did he violate the law of Egypt; for, according to Diodorus Siculus (1. 1. � 17), "he who saw a man killed, or violently assaulted on the highway, and did not rescue him, if he could, was punished with death." Moses, therefore, in this transaction, acted as a brave and good man; especially as at this time there was little probability of obtaining justice on an Egyptian murderer.