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| 2:1 |
Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi.
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| 2:2 |
And the woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.
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| 2:3 |
But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it, and set [it] among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
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| 2:4 |
And his sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.
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| 2:5 |
Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her maidens walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it [to her].
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| 2:6 |
When she opened [it], she saw the child, and behold, [the] boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
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| 2:7 |
Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"
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| 2:8 |
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go [ahead]." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
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| 2:9 |
Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away and nurse him for me and I shall give [you] your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.
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| 2:10 |
And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
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| 2:11 |
Now it came about in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
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| 2:12 |
So he looked this way and that, and when he saw there was no one [around], he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
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| 2:13 |
And he went out the next day, and behold, two Hebrews were fighting with each other; and he said to the offender, "Why are you striking your companion?"
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| 2:14 |
But he said, "Who made you a prince or a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely the matter has become known."
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| 2:15 |
When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.
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| 2:16 |
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came to draw water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
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| 2:17 |
Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
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| 2:18 |
When they came to Reuel their father, he said, "Why have you come [back] so soon today?"
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| 2:19 |
So they said, "An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds; and what is more, he even drew the water for us and watered the flock."
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| 2:20 |
And he said to his daughters, "Where is he then? Why is it that you have left the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat."
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| 2:21 |
And Moses was willing to dwell with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
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| 2:22 |
Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land."
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| 2:23 |
Now it came about in [the course of] those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of [their] bondage rose up to God.
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| 2:24 |
So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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| 2:25 |
And God saw the sons of Israel, and God took notice [of them].
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