Exodus 2
1And
there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
2And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid
him three months.
3And 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 river's brink.
4And
his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
5And
the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when
she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
6And
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.
7Then said his sister
to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
8And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's
mother.
9And Pharaoh's daughter said unto
her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the women took the child, and nursed it.
10And the child grew, and she brought him
unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the
water.
11And 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.
12And 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.
13And 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?
14And 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.
15Now 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.
16Now
the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
17And the shepherds came and drove them away:
but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18And
when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
19And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and
also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
20And
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.
21And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
22And she bare him a son, and he called his
name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
23And 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.
24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with
Isaac, and with Jacob.
25And God looked upon
the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
