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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 bore a son; and when she saw that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3 And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and with pitch; and she put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the riverside; and she saw the ark among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to fetch it. 6 And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold the baby 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 a wet nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?” 8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her: “Go.” And the maiden went and called the child’s mother. 9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her: “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” And the woman took the child, and nursed him. 10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said: “Because I drew him out of the water.”11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out to his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13 And he went out the second day; behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting together; and he said to him that did the wrong: “Why do you strike your companion?” 14 And he said: “Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Do you think to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” And Moses feared, and said: “Surely the 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 you are come so soon today?” 19 And they said: “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.” 20 And he said to his daughters: “And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.” 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave to Moses Zipporah his daughter. 22 And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said: “I have been a stranger in a strange land.” {p}
23 And it came to pass in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of their bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God / Elohiym by reason of their bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God saw the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them. {s}
Exo 2:1-22 Chiastic structure
Exo 2:23-25, When God takes knowledge
Exo 2:23-4:26, Signs and wonders
Exo 1:1-2:25 Triennial Shemot “Names”
Exo 1:1-6:1 Annual Shemot “Names”
Exo 1:1-6:1 Finding Messiah in Shemot
Exo 2 Links to Chiastic structures, Hebrew root studies, off-site studies
The Biblical text is from the 1917 Jewish Publication Society edition posted by Mechon Mamre online. I have modernized words, spelling, and grammar, and aligned the verse and chapter numbers to the KJV. The linked studies, chiastic structures, and Scripture pictures are my own and are copyright © Christine Miller. All rights reserved.
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