“He 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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Exodus 2 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.