Exodus 2
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1 And there went a man
of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
2 And the woman conceived, and bare
a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she
hid him three months.
3 And when she could not longer hide
him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and
with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags
by the rivers brink.
4 And his sister stood afar off, to
wit what would be done to him.
5 And the daughter of
Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens
walked along by the rivers side; and when she saw the ark among the
flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
6 And when she had opened it,
she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on
him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews children.
7 Then said his sister to Pharaohs
daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that
she may nurse the child for thee?
8 And Pharaohs daughter said to
her, Go. And the maid went and called the childs mother.
9 And Pharaohs daughter said unto
her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee
thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
10 And the child grew, and she
brought him unto Pharaohs daughter, and he became her son. And she
called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
11 And it came to pass
in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren,
and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew,
one of his brethren.
12 And he looked this way and that
way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian,
and hid him in the sand.
13 And when he went out the second
day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him
that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
14 And he said, Who made thee a
prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst
the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
15 Now when Pharaoh heard this
thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh,
and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
16 Now the priest of
Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and
filled the troughs to water their fathers flock.
17 And the shepherds came and drove
them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18 And when they came to Reuel their
father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
19 And they said, An Egyptian
delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water
enough for us, and watered the flock.
20 And he said unto his daughters,
And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man?
call him, that he may eat bread.
21 And Moses was content to dwell
with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
22 And she bare him a son,
and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a
strange land.
23 And it came to pass
in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of
Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came
up unto God by reason of the bondage.
24 And God heard their groaning, and
God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 And God looked upon the children
of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
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