Moses is Hidden in an Ark & Pharaoh’s Daughter Rescues Him |
Exodus 2:1-25 The Second Book of Moses Called Exodus |
A man of the house of Levi [married] a daughter of a [Levite] & [she] conceived & bore a [healthy, beautiful] son & hid him for 3 months. When she could no longer hide him, [his mother] took an ark of bulrushes & daubed it inside & out with slime & pitch [to keep it water tight.] |
She put the child in it & laid it in the [reeds by the river’s edge.] His sister watched [from a distance] to [know] what would [happen] to him. The Pharaoh’s daughter came to [bathe] in the river & her maidens walked along the side of the river. When she saw the ark among the [reeds,] she sent her maid to [get] it. |
When she opened it, she saw the child & the baby wept & she had compassion on him & said, This is one of the Hebrew’s children. Then [the baby’s] sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go & call you a nurse of the Hebrew women, [so] that she may nurse the child for you? She told [his sister,] Go [get one.] |
The maid called the [child’s] mother. The Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Take this child away & nurse [him] for me & I will [pay] you your wages. The woman took the child & nursed [him] & the child grew until she brought him to the Pharaoh’s daughter & he became her son. |
She named him Moses, Because I drew him out of the water. When Moses was grown, he went to [see] his brethren & [saw] their burdens. He [saw] an Egyptian [beating] a Hebrew, one of his brethren. [After looking both ways] & seeing no [one looking, Moses] killed the Egyptian & hid him in the sand. |
When [Moses] went out the next day, 2 Hebrew men [were fighting] & [Moses] said, [Why are] you [striking your companion?] He said, Who made you a prince & a judge over us? [Do you] intend to kill me [like] you killed the Egyptian? Moses was [fearful] & said, Surely this thing is known. |
The Pharaoh sought to [kill] Moses when he heard of this, but Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh & dwelt in the land of the Midian & he sat down by a well . The priest of Midian had 7 daughters, [who] came & drew water & filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. |
[Then] the shepherds came & drove them away; but Moses stood up & helped them & watered their flock. When they got back to their father, Reuel, he said, How [did you finish] so early today? |
They said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds & also drew enough water for us, & watered the flock. He asked his daughters, Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? |
Call him, that he may eat bread. Moses was content to [live] with the man & he gave his daughter, Zipporah, to Moses [as his wife.] She bore him a son & [Moses] named him Gershom: for I have been a stranger in a strange land. |
[In time,] the king of Egypt died & the children of Israel [groaned] & cried out, [because] of their bondage. God heard their groaning & God remembered His covenant [contract] with Abraham, Isaac & Jacob & the Lord God looked upon the children of Israel & God had respect [for] them. |