Exod 2
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And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
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And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him whom he was a goodly
child, she hid him three months.
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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 she put the child therein, and laid it in
the flags by the river`s brink.
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And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.
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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked
along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid
to fetch it.
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And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion
on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews` children.
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Then said his sister to Pharaoh`s daughter, Shall I go and call you a nurse of the
Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?
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And Pharaoh`s daughter said to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child`s
mother.
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And Pharaoh`s daughter said to her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and
I will give you your wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
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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.
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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 smiting a Hebrew, one
of his brethren.
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And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote
the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
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And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving
together: and he said to him whom did the wrong, Wherefore smite you your fellow?
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And he said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Think you to kill me, as you
killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.
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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.
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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled
the troughs to water their father`s flock.
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And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and
watered their flock.
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And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you are come so
soon to-day?
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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.
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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.
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And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
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And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner
in a foreign land.
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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 the bondage, and they cried, and their
cry came up to God by reason of the bondage.
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And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac,
and with Jacob.
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And God saw the children of Israel, and God took knowledge [of them].