Acts 7:29

“Then fled Moses at this saying, etc.] For hereby the thing was known to Pharaoh, being presently carried to court, who sought to kill him for it, (<020215>Exodus 2:15) The Jews have a very fabulous story, that Moses was taken up upon it, and put in prison, and delivered into the hands of an executioner to be put to death; but that God wrought a miracle for him; he made his neck as hard as a pillar of marble, and the sword turned upon the neck of the executioner, and he died; and God sent Michael, the prince, in the likeness of the executioner, who took Moses by the hand, and led him out of Egypt, and left him at the borders of it, the distance of three days’ journey f339 but the truth of the…”

“Then fled Moses, &c.--for "when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses" (Exo 2:15).”

“Then fled Moses ... - Moses fled because he now ascertained that what he had done was known. He supposed that it had been unobserved, Exodus 2:12. But he now thought that the knowledge of it might reach Pharaoh, and that his life might thus be endangered. Nor did he judge incorrectly; for as soon as Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to take his life, Exodus 2:15. Was a stranger - Or became a sojourner πάροικος paroikos, one who had a temporary abode in the land. The use of this word implies that he did not expect to make that his permanent dwelling. In the land of Madian - This was a part of Arabia. “This would seem,” says Gesenius, “to have been a tract of country extending from the eastern…”

“Exo 2:14-22, Exo 4:19, Exo 4:20 Madian: Exo 18:2-4 Acts 7:30”