Exodus 2
2
Moses’s Birth and Adoption
1Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman. # 2:1 Ex 6:20; Nm 26:59; 1Ch 23:14 2The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, # 2:2 Or healthy she hid him for three months. # 2:2 Ac 7:20; Heb 11:23 3But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. 4Then his sister # 2:4 Ex 15:20; Nm 26:59 stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.
5Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds, sent her slave girl, took it, 6opened it, and saw him, the child — and there he was, a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.”
7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a Hebrew woman who is nursing to nurse the boy for you? ”
8“Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother. 9Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him. 10When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, # 2:10 The name Moses sounds like “drawing out” in Hb and “born” in Egyptian. “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
Moses in Midian
11Years later, # 2:11 Lit And it was in those days after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people # 2:11 Lit his brothers and observed their forced labor. # 2:11 Ex 1:11; Ac 7:23; Heb 11:24–26 He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people. 12Looking all around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand. 13The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your neighbor? ” # 2:13 Or fellow Hebrew
14“Who made you a commander and judge over us? ” the man replied. “Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? ”
Then Moses became afraid and thought, “What I did is certainly known.”
15When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, # 2:15 Ac 7:29; Heb 11:27 and sat down by a well. # 2:15 Gn 24:11; 29:2
16Now the priest of Midian # 2:16 Ex 3:1; 1Sm 9:11 had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17Then some shepherds arrived and drove them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their flock. 18When they returned to their father Reuel, # 2:18 Jethro’s clan or last name was Reuel; Ex 3:1.,# 2:18 Ex 3:1; 4:18; Nm 10:29 he asked, “Why have you come back so quickly today? ”
19They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
20“So where is he? ” he asked his daughters. “Why then did you leave the man behind? Invite him to eat dinner.”
21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah # 2:21 Ex 4:25; 18:2 to Moses in marriage. 22She gave birth to a son whom he named Gershom, # 2:22 In Hb the name Gershom sounds like the phrase “a stranger there.” for he said, “I have been a resident alien # 2:22 Ex 18:3–4; Ac 7:29; Heb 11:13 in a foreign land.”
23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, they cried out, # 2:23 Ex 3:7,9; Dt 26:7; Jms 5:4 and their cry for help because of the difficult labor ascended to God. 24God heard their groaning, and God remembered # 2:24 Gn 9:15; Ex 6:5; 1Ch 16:15; Ps 105:8; 106:45; 111:4 his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. # 2:24 Ps 22:23; Lk 1:33,55 25God saw the Israelites, and God knew. # 2:25 Ex 3:7; 4:31; Lk 1:25
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Exodus 2
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1And there goeth a man of the house of Levi, and he taketh the daughter of Levi,
2and the woman conceiveth, and beareth a son, and she seeth him that he [is] fair, and she hideth him three months,
3and she hath not been able any more to hide him, and she taketh for him an ark of rushes, and daubeth it with bitumen and with pitch, and putteth the lad in it, and putteth [it] in the weeds by the edge of the River;
4and his sister stationeth herself afar off, to know what is done to him.
5And a daughter of Pharaoh cometh down to bathe at the River, and her damsels are walking by the side of the River, and she seeth the ark in the midst of the weeds, and sendeth her handmaid, and she taketh it,
6and openeth, and seeth him — the lad, and lo, a child weeping! and she hath pity on him, and saith, ‘This is [one] of the Hebrews' children.’
7And his sister saith unto the daughter of Pharaoh, ‘Do I go? when I have called for thee a suckling woman of the Hebrews, then she doth suckle the lad for thee;’
8and the daughter of Pharaoh saith to her, ‘Go;’ and the virgin goeth, and calleth the mother of the lad,
9and the daughter of Pharaoh saith to her, ‘Take this lad away, and suckle him for me, and I — I give thy hire;’ and the woman taketh the lad, and suckleth him.
10And the lad groweth, and she bringeth him in to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he is to her for a son, and she calleth his name Moses, and saith, ‘Because — from the water I have drawn him.’
11And it cometh to pass, in those days, that Moses is grown, and he goeth out unto his brethren, and looketh on their burdens, and seeth a man, an Egyptian, smiting a man, a Hebrew, [one] of his brethren,
12and he turneth hither and thither, and seeth that there is no man, and smiteth the Egyptian, and hideth him in the sand.
13And he goeth out on the second day, and lo, two men, Hebrews, striving! and he saith to the wrong-doer, ‘Why dost thou smite thy neighbour?’
14and he saith, ‘Who set thee for a head and a judge over us? to slay me art thou saying [it], as thou hast slain the Egyptian?’ and Moses feareth, and saith, ‘Surely the thing hath been known.’
15And Pharaoh heareth of this thing, and seeketh to slay Moses, and Moses fleeth from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelleth in the land of Midian, and dwelleth by the well.
16And to a priest of Midian [are] seven daughters, and they come and draw, and fill the troughs, to water the flock of their father,
17and the shepherds come and drive them away, and Moses ariseth, and saveth them, and watereth their flock.
18And they come in to Reuel their father, and he saith, ‘Wherefore have ye hastened to come in to-day?’
19and they say, ‘A man, an Egyptian, hath delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also hath diligently drawn for us, and watereth the flock;’
20and he saith unto his daughters, ‘And where [is] he? why [is] this? — ye left the man! call for him, and he doth eat bread.’
21And Moses is willing to dwell with the man, and he giveth Zipporah his daughter to Moses,
22and she beareth a son, and he calleth his name Gershom, for he said, ‘A sojourner I have been in a strange land.’
23And it cometh to pass during these many days, that the king of Egypt dieth, and the sons of Israel sigh because of the service, and cry, and their cry goeth up unto God, because of the service;
24and God heareth their groaning, and God remembereth His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;
25and God seeth the sons of Israel, and God knoweth.
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