EX-2:1  And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took [to

wife] a

daughter of Levi.

EX-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.

EX-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.

EX-2:4  And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done

to him.

EX-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.

EX-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.

EX-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?

EX-2:8  And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid

went and called

the child's mother.

EX-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.

EX-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.

EX-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.

EX-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.

EX-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?

EX-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.

EX-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.

EX-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.

EX-2:17  And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses

stood up and

helped them, and watered their flock.

EX-2:18  And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How

[is it that]

ye are come so soon to day?

EX-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.

EX-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.

EX-2:21  And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he

gave Moses

Zipporah his daughter.

EX-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.

EX-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.

EX-2:24  And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his

covenant with

Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

EX-2:25  And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had

respect unto

[them].

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