Old Testament · Law

Exodus chapter 2

A man from the married a woman who was also from Levi’s tribe.The woman became pregnant and had a son. When she saw how he was, she hid him for three months.When she couldn’t hide him any longer, she got a , waterproofed it with , put the baby in it, and placed it among the reeds along the bank of the .His stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. came down to bathe in the Nile while her attendants walked along the riverbank. She noticed the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it.She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she for him. “This must be one of the babies,” she said.Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and find a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for you?”“Yes, go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and got the baby’s own mother.Pharaoh’s daughter said to the woman, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I’ll pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.When the boy was old enough, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him , saying, “I pulled him out of the water.”Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them doing . He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew — one of his own people.He looked around, and when he saw no one was watching, he killed the Egyptian and buried him in the sand.The next day he went out again and saw two Hebrew men fighting. He said to the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your own ?”The man shot back, “Who made you a over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?” Moses was afraid and thought, “So what I did is already known.”When Pharaoh heard about it, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of , where he sat down by a .Now the had seven daughters. They came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.But some shepherds came along and drove them away. So Moses stood up, came to their defense, and watered their flock.When the girls returned to their father , he asked, “How did you get back so quickly today?”They answered, “An rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”“So where is he?” he asked his daughters. “Why did you leave the man there? Invite him to eat with us.”Moses agreed to stay with the man, and Reuel gave his daughter to Moses as his wife.She gave birth to a son, and Moses named him , saying, “I’ve been a in a foreign land.”A long time passed, and the king of Egypt died. The Israelites under their slavery and for help, and their cry rose up to God.God heard their groaning, and God his with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.God the Israelites, and God .