In 2.11-25: Moses kills an Egyptian and flees to Midian.
In verse 11: The story of Moses immediately from Moses as a baby (2.1-10) to Moses as an adult.
In verse 13: The Hebrew verb for strike ("nakah") is the same verb used in v. 12 when Moses kills the Egyptian, in v. 11 when the Egyptian was beating the Hebrew, and the word is used as god "strikes" Egypt with the plagues later in the story (3.20; 12.12-13).
In verse 15: Genesis 25.2 portrays the people of Midian as descended from Abraham and Keturah.
They are a wandering people associated with the Sinai Peninsula south of Canaan and with northern Arabia, which lies eats and north of Canaan.
In verse 18: The name Moses' father-in-law is Reuel here but the name varies in other biblical traditions.
His name is sometimes Jethro (3.1:18.1) or Hobad (Num 10.29; Judg 4.11).
In verse 22: Moses gives his son the name Gershom as a word play on the word alien ("ger").
In a sense Moses is an alien or a stranger in every land/
The Midianites consider him an "Egyptian" (2.19).
The Egyptians seek to kill him as a Hebrew sympathizer (2.15).
The Hebrews reject him as one of their own (2.14).
In verse 23-24: God heard Israel's cry of distress and God remembered his covenant or promise made to Israel's ancestors in Genesis (Abraham- Gen 15.12-16; Isaac- 26.24; Jacob- 35.11-12).
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