2Exodus 2

1And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.Select Exodus 2:1

2And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.Select Exodus 2:2

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 she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.Select Exodus 2:3

4And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.Select Exodus 2:4

5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.Select Exodus 2:5

6And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept. And she had compassion on him, and said: 'This is one of the Hebrews' children.'Select Exodus 2:6

7Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter: 'Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?'Select Exodus 2:7

8And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: 'Go.' And the maiden went and called the child's mother.Select Exodus 2:8

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 woman took the child, and nursed it.Select Exodus 2:9

10And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said: 'Because I drew him out of the water.'Select Exodus 2:10

11And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.Select Exodus 2:11

12And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.Select Exodus 2:12

13And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong: 'Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?'Select Exodus 2:13

14And he said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said: 'Surely the thing is known.'Select Exodus 2:14

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.Select Exodus 2:15

16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.Select Exodus 2:16

17And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.Select Exodus 2:17

18And when they came to Reuel their father, he said: 'How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?'Select Exodus 2:18

19And they said: 'An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.'Select Exodus 2:19

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.'Select Exodus 2:20

21And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.Select Exodus 2:21

22And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said: 'I have been a stranger in a strange land.'Select Exodus 2:22

23And it came to pass in the course of those many days 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.Select Exodus 2:23

24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.Select Exodus 2:24

25And God saw the children of Israel, and God took cognizance of them.Select Exodus 2:25