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The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Exodus 02
1 A man of the house of Levi went and
took a daughter of Levi as his wife.
2 The woman conceived and bore a son.
When she saw that he was a fine child, she
hid him three months.
3 Whenshe couldno longerhidehim, she
took a papyrus basket for him, and coated
it with tar and with pitch. She put the child
in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s
bank.
4 His sister stood far off, to see what
would be done to him.
5 Pharaoh’s daughter came down to
bathe at the river. Her maidens walked
along by the riverside. She saw the basket
among the reeds, and sent her servant to
get it.
6 She opened it, and saw the child, and
behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the
Hebrews’ children.”
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you
from the Hebrew women, that she may
nurse the child for you?”
8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.”
The young woman went and called the
child’s mother.
9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take
this child away, and nurse him for me, and
I will give you your wages.”
The woman took the child, and nursed it.
10 The child grew, and she brought him
to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her
son. She named him Moses,† and said,
“Because I drew him out of the water.”
11 In those days, when Moses had grown
up, he went out to his brothers and saw
theirburdens. He saw anEgyptianstriking
a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
12 He looked this way and that way, and
when he saw that there was no one, he
killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the
sand.
13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who
did the wrong, “Why do you strike your
fellow?”
14 He said, “Who made you a prince and
a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as
you killed the Egyptian?”
Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this
thing is known.”
15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing,
he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled
from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the
land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
16 Now the priest of Midian had seven
daughters. They came and drew water,
and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
17 The shepherds came and drove them
away; but Moses stood up and helped
them, and watered their flock.
18 When they came to Reuel, their father,
he said, “How is it that you have returned
so early today?”
19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us
out of the hand of the shepherds, and
moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”
20 He said to his daughters, “Where is he?
Why is it that you have left the man? Call
him, that he may eat bread.”
21 Moses was content to dwell with the
man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
22 She bore a son, and he named him
Gershom,‡ for he said, “I have lived as a
foreigner in a foreign land.”
23 In the course of those many days, the
king of Egypt died, and the children of
Israel sighed because of the bondage, and
they cried, and their cry came up to God
because of the bondage.
24 God heard their groaning, and God
remembered his covenant with Abraham,
with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 God saw the children of Israel, and
God understood.
2:10 “Moses” sounds like the Hebrew for “draw out”. ‡ 2:22 “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien
there”
Word English Bible
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