2:1 Now a man from the house of Levi went and ①married a daughter of Levi.
▷ ①Lit took
2:2 And the woman conceived and gave birth to a son; and when she saw ①that he was ②beautiful, she hid him for three months.
▷ ①Lit him that ②Lit good
2:3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus ①basket and covered it with tar and pitch. Then she put the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
▷ ①Or chest
2:4 And his sister stood at a distance to ①find out what would ②happen to him.
▷ ①Lit know ②Lit be done
2:5 Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her female attendants walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the ①basket among the reeds and sent her slave woman, and she brought it to her.
▷ ①Or chest
2:6 When she opened it, she ①saw the child, and behold, the boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
▷ ①Heb saw it, the child
2:7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a woman for you who is nursing from the Hebrew women, so that she may nurse the child for you?”
2:8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go ahead.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.
2:9 Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.
2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. And she named him ①Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
▷ ①Heb Mosheh, from a verb meaning to draw out
2:11 Now it came about in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his ①fellow Hebrews and looked at their ②hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his ③fellow Hebrews.
▷ ①Lit brothers ②Lit burdens ③Lit brothers
2:12 So he ①looked this way and that, and when he saw that there was no one around, he struck and killed the Egyptian, and hid ②his body in the sand.
▷ ①Lit turned ②Lit him
2:13 Now he went out the next day, and behold, two Hebrews were ①fighting with each other; and he said to the ②offender, “Why are you striking your companion?”
▷ ①Or quarreling ②Or the guilty one
2:14 But he said, “Who made you a ①ruler and a judge over us? Do you ②intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and said, “Surely the matter has become known!”
▷ ①Lit man, a ruler ②Lit say
2:15 When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and ①settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
▷ ①Lit dwelt
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.
2:17 Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock.
2:18 When they came to their father Reuel, he said, “Why have you come back so soon today?”
2:19 They said, “An Egyptian saved us from ①the shepherds, and what is more, he even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
▷ ①Lit the hand of the
2:20 So he said to his daughters, “Where is he then? Why is it that you have left the man behind? Invite him ①to have something to eat.”
▷ ①Lit that he may eat bread
2:21 And Moses was willing to live with the man. And he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
2:22 Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him ①Gershom, for he said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land.”
▷ ①Cf. Heb ger sham, a stranger there
2:23 Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage ascended to God.
2:24 So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
2:25 And God saw the sons of Israel, and God ①took notice of them.
▷ ①Lit knew them