2Exodus 2

1After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of his own kindred.Select Exodus 2:1

2And she conceived, and bore a son: and seeing him a goodly child, hid him three months.Select Exodus 2:2

3And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,Select Exodus 2:3

4His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.Select Exodus 2:4

5And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought,Select Exodus 2:5

6She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.Select Exodus 2:6

7And the child's sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?Select Exodus 2:7

8She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.Select Exodus 2:8

9And Pharao's daughter said to her: Take this child, and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao's daughter.Select Exodus 2:9

10And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.Select Exodus 2:10

11In those days, after Moses was grown up, he went out to his brethren: and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking one of the Hebrews, his brethren.Select Exodus 2:11

12And when he had looked about this way and that way, and saw no one there, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.Select Exodus 2:12

13And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?Select Exodus 2:13

14But he answered: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us? wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian? Moses feared, and said: How is this come to be known?Select Exodus 2:14

15And Pharao heard of this word, and sought to kill Moses: but he fled from his sight, and abode in the land of Madian, and he sat down by a well.Select Exodus 2:15

16And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw water: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water their father's flocks.Select Exodus 2:16

17And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses arose, and defending the maids, watered their sheep.Select Exodus 2:17

18And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are ye come sooner than usual?Select Exodus 2:18

19They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the shepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink.Select Exodus 2:19

20But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread.Select Exodus 2:20

21And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:Select Exodus 2:21

22And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.Select Exodus 2:22

23Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.Select Exodus 2:23

24And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.Select Exodus 2:24

25And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them.Select Exodus 2:25