Exodus:2

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* A man from Levi ’s family married a Levite woman . * The woman became pregnant and bore a son . She saw how beautiful he was and hid him for three months . * When she could not hide him any longer , she took a basket made of papyrus reeds and coated it with tar and pitch . She put the baby in it and set it among the papyrus reeds near the bank of the Nile River . * The baby ’s sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him . * The king ’s daughter came to the river to bathe . Her servants walked along the bank . Suddenly she noticed the basket in the papyrus reeds and sent a slave woman to get it . * She opened it and saw a baby boy . He was crying , and she felt sorry for him . »This is one of the Hebrew babies ,« she said . * His sister asked her : »Shall I go and call a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for you ?« * »Please do ,« she answered . So the girl went and brought the baby ’s own mother . * Pharaoh ’s daughter told her : »Take care of this child , and I will pay you . The baby ’s mother carried him home and took care of him .« * When he was old enough , she took him to the king ’s daughter , who adopted him . She named him Moses because she said : »I pulled him out of the water .« * After Moses had grown up , he went out to where his own people were hard at work . He saw an Egyptian beating one of them . * Moses looked around to see if anyone was watching . Then he killed the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand . * The next day when Moses went out , he saw two Hebrews fighting . So he went to the man who started the fight and asked : »Why are you beating up one of your own people ?« * The man replied : »Who made you a prince or a judge over us ? Are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian ?« Moses was afraid and said : »Surely the matter has become known .« * When Pharaoh heard of this matter , he tried to kill Moses . But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian by a well . * The priest of Midian had seven daughters . They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father ’s flock . * Then the shepherds came and drove them away . Moses stood up and helped them water their flock . * When they returned to Reuel their father , he said , »Why have you come back so soon today ?« * They said : »An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds . He drew water for us and watered the flock .« * He asked his daughters : »Where is he ? Why have you left the man ? Call him , that he may eat bread .« * Moses was content to live with the man . He gave Moses his daughter Zipporah . * She bore a son , and he called his name Gershom . For he said : »I have been a stranger in a strange land .« * Time went by and the king of Egypt died . The Israelites still groaned because they were slaves . So they cried out , and their cries for help went up to God . * God heard their groaning . He remembered his promise to Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob . * God saw the Israelites being oppressed and was concerned about them .

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