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And there
went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife
a daughter of Levi.
02 And the woman conceived, and bare a son:
and when she saw him that he was a goodly child,
she hid him three months.
03 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.
04 And his sister stood afar off, to wit
what would be done to him.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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?
08 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go.
And the maid went and called the child's mother.
09 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 women 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.
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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.
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