And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:

Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?

Art not thou that Egyptian, who before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?