Exodus 2

2And there went ^aa man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. ^2*And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and ^bwhen she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. ³And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark ^cof bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in ^dthe flags by the river’s brink. ⁴And ^ehis sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. ⁵And the ^fdaughter 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. ⁶And 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. ⁷Then 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? ⁸And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother. 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. ¹⁰And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became ^gher son. And she called his name ^||Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

¹¹And it came to pass in those days, ^hwhen Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their ⁱburdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. ¹²And 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. ^13*And ^kwhen 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? ¹⁴And 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. ¹⁵Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But ^lMoses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by ^ma well. ¹⁶Now the ^||priest of Midian had seven daughters: ⁿand they came and ^odrew water, and filled the ^ptroughs to water their father’s flock. ¹⁷And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and ^qwatered their flock. ¹⁸And when they came to ^rReuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day? ¹⁹And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. ²⁰And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may ^seat bread. ²¹And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses ^tZipporah his daughter. ²²And she bare him a son, and he called his name ^||Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

²³And it came to pass ^uin process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel ^xsighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and ^ytheir cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. ²⁴And God ^zheard their groaning, and God ^aremembered his covenant with ^bAbraham, with Isaac, and with ^bJacob. ²⁵And God ^clooked upon the children of Israel, and God ^†dhad respect unto them.