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Exodus 2 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The Birth of Moses

(Heb 11:23 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:1 - Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:2 - The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes[fn] and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:4 - And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6 - When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:7 - Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:8 - And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:9 - And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:10 - When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”[fn]

Moses Flees to Midian

(Heb 11:24, 25 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:11 - One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:12 - He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:13 - When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:14 - He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15 - When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:16 - Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:17 - The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:18 - When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:19 - They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:20 - He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:21 - And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner[fn] in a foreign land.”

God Hears Israel’s Groaning

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:23 - During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:24 - And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:25 - God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
See the ESV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew papyrus reeds
Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out
Hebrew brothers
Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for sojourner
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Exodus Chapter 2 — Additional Translations:

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