Exodus 2:12
Good News Translation
Moses looked all around, and when he saw that no one was watching, he killed the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

New Revised Standard Version
He looked this way and that, and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Contemporary English Version
Moses looked around to see if anyone was watching, then he killed the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

New American Bible
Looking about and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And 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.

he looked.

Acts 7:24-26 And when he had seen one of them suffer wrong, he defended him: and striking the Egyptian, he avenged him who suffered the injury. . . .

slew.

Context
Moses Kills an Egyptian
11In those days, after Moses was grown up, he went out to his brethren: and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking one of the Hebrews, his brethren. 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.13And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?…
Cross References
Acts 7:24
And when he had seen one of them suffer wrong, he defended him: and striking the Egyptian, he avenged him who suffered the injury.

Acts 7:25
And he thought that his brethren understood that God by his hand would save them. But they understood it not.

Exodus 2:11
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