moses killed only one Egyptian guy......when push came to shove-----
Pinchas did it for him
The Battle of Refidim (or Rephidim), as described in the Bible, was a battle between the Jews and Amalek, which occurred in Rephidim while the Jewish people were moving towards the Promised Land. The description of this battle can be found in the Book of Exodus.
Yahweh announced the
extermination of the Amalekites and called on Israel to defeat them, stating that Israel would experience peace with their enemies (Exodus 17:14, Deuteronomy 25:19). This was the first of several conflicts over several hundred years between the Amalekites and Jews.[1]
Moses dispatches his army, which quickly kills the five Midianite kings and slaughters all the Midianite men. (This is
not the war crime, but rather everyday policy.) The Israelites capture all the Midianite women and children and march them back to camp. Moses is furious that the Midianite women have been spared. (This chapter also fails to mention that Moses himself is married to a Midianite woman!)
Moses orders his troops to execute all the Midianite boys and all the Midianite females except for the virgins. Isn’t this a kind of sick, grotesquely disproportionate atrocity? It’s collective punishment of a most repellent sort—and all to take revenge for the one bad date between an Israelite and a Midianite girl! Numbers informs us, with its usual fondness for precision, that 32,000 virgin females survive the mass execution (and were then enslaved, incidentally). By my rough estimate, this means the
Israelites killed more than 60,000 captive, defenseless women and boys.
The Bible's Most Hideous War Crime