Exodus
2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter
of Levi.
2:2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he
was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
2:3 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 river's brink.
2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
2:5 And 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.
2:6 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.
2:7 Then 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?
2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the
child's mother.
2:9 And Pharaoh's 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.
2:10 And 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.
2:11 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.
2:12 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.
2:13 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?
2:14 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.
2:15 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.
2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew
water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and
helped them, and watered their flock.
2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are
come so soon to day?
2:19 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.
2:20 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.
2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah
his daughter.
2:22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I
have been a stranger in a strange land.
2:23 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.
2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with
Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
2:25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto
them.
