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#417: Was Moses Right to Kill the Egyptian Man?

#417: Was Moses Right to Kill the Egyptian Man?

Shemot Rabbah on Parashat Shemot, Shemot/Exodus 2:12

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Rameses II, the Pharaoh who may have been the one who enslaved the Israelites. Source: Photo by Szilas at the British Museum.

Shemot/Exodus 2:12

וַיִּ֤פֶן כֹּה֙ וָכֹ֔ה וַיַּ֖רְא כִּ֣י אֵ֣ין אִ֑ישׁ וַיַּךְ֙ אֶת־הַמִּצְרִ֔י וַֽיִּטְמְנֵ֖הוּ בַּחֽוֹל׃

He (Moses) turned this way and that and, seeing no one about, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the …

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