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title: Exodus 2
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createdAt: 2024-07-17T02:04:29.787Z
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**1 **And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took *to wife* a daughter of Levi. **2 **And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he *was a* goodly *child*, she hid him three months. **3 **And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid *it* in the flags by the river's brink. **4 **And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

**5 **And the daughter 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. **6 **And 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. **7 **Then 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? **8 **And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. **9 **And 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. **10 **And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

**11 **And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. **12 **And 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 when 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? **14 **And 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.

**15 **Now 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.

**16 **Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew *water*, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. **17 **And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. **18 **And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How *is it that* ye are come so soon to day? **19 **And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew *water* enough for us, and watered the flock. **20 **And 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. **21 **And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. **22 **And she bare *him* a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

**23 **And it came to pass in process of time, 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. **24 **And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. **25 **And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto *them*.