8 So they said to him, “Please explain to us! For whose sake is this evil upon us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And from what people are you?”

9 And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew. And I am fearing יהוה, the Elohim of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”

10 And the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “Why have you done this?” For the men knew that he fled from the presence of יהוה, for he had informed them.