And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and, avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian - in the heat of his indignation going further, probably, than he intended. Humphry quotes from Diodorus Siculus (1: 77) an Egyptian law requiring the subjects to rescue anyone whom they should see ready to be slain, or suffering violence at the hands of another; and if that could not be done, to kill the oppressor.