Exodus 2:11-12 New King James Version


Moses Flees to Midian


Now it came to pass in those days,
when Moses was grown, that he went out
to his brethren and looked at their
burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating
a Hebrew, one of his brethren. So he
looked this way and that way, and when
he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and
hid him in the sand.

THEN I PICTURE THIS:
Sure, Moses was a great leader, an
emancipator of his people and a prophet.
Most people don't know that he also was the
Biblical equivalent of Splinter Cell's Sam
Fisher--a well-honed killing machine, able to
slay from the shadows without pity or
remorse. Martin Luther King may have had a
dream, but Moses had a body count.
You can almost picture the scene: An
Egyptian soldier is wailing on a hapless
Hebrew when Moses, clothed in head-to- toe
black, drops down from the ceiling. Moving
with cat-like grace, he sneaks up behind the
soldier and, taking his head in his hands,
snaps the man's neck with one savage twist.
As the lifeless body slumps to the ground,
Moses lights up a cigar. "Well," he quips,
"looks like someone bit off more than he
could Jew."