Exodus [Departure] 2

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¹A man of the house of Levi United with went and took a daughter of Levi United with as his wife.

²The woman conceived, and bore a son, upon seeing what a fine child he was, she hid him three months.

³When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

⁴His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.

⁵Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.

⁶She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

⁷Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”

⁸Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The maiden went and called the child’s mother.

⁹Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” The woman took the child, and nursed it.

¹⁰The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses Drawn out, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.” (3)

¹¹In those days, when Moses Drawn out had grown up, he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian person from Abode of slavery striking a Hebrew Immigrant, one of his brothers.

¹²He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian person from Abode of slavery, and hid him in the sand.

¹³He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews Immigrants were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”

¹⁴He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian person from Abode of slavery?” Moses Drawn out was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”

¹⁵Now when Pharaoh sh'ma ·heard obeyed· this thing, he sought to kill Moses Drawn out. But Moses Drawn out fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian Strife, and he sat down by a well.

¹⁶Now the priest of Midian Strife had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

¹⁷The shepherds came and divorced them away; but Moses Drawn out stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

¹⁸When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”

¹⁹They said, “An Egyptian person from Abode of slavery delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”

²⁰He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”

²¹Moses Drawn out was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Drawn out Zipporah, his daughter.

²²She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

²³In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt Abode of slavery died, and the children of Israel God prevails sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

²⁴God sh'ma ·heard obeyed· their groaning, and God remembered his covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties· with Abraham Father of a multitude, with Isaac Laughter, and with Jacob Supplanter.

²⁵God saw the children of Israel God prevails, and God was concerned about them.