Exodus 2:11–25

Moses Flees to Midian

¹¹Now it came to pass in those days, ^jwhen Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. ¹²So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he ^kkilled the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. ¹³And ^lwhen he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men ^mwere fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, “Why are you striking your companion?”

¹⁴Then he said, ⁿ“Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”

So Moses ^ofeared and said, “Surely this thing is known!” ¹⁵When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But ^pMoses fled from ²the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of ^qMidian; and he sat down by ^ra well.

^16sNow the priest of Midian had seven daughters. ^tAnd they came and drew water, and they filled the ^utroughs to water their father’s flock. ¹⁷Then the ^vshepherds came and ^wdrove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and ^xwatered their flock.

¹⁸When they came to ^yReuel ³their father, ^zhe said, “How is it that you have come so soon today?”

¹⁹And they said, “An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us and watered the flock.”

²⁰So he said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may ^aeat bread.”

²¹Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave ^bZipporah his daughter to Moses. ²²And she bore him a son. He called his name ^cGershom, ⁴for he said, “I have been ^da ⁵stranger in a foreign land.”

²³Now it happened ^ein the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel ^fgroaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and ^gtheir cry came up to God because of the bondage. ²⁴So God ^hheard their groaning, and God ⁱremembered His ^jcovenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. ²⁵And God ^klooked upon the children of Israel, and God ^lacknowledged them.