1 There was a man descended from Levi who had taken a woman of Levi as his wife.
2 She conceived and gave birth to a son and, seeing what a fine child he was, she kept him hidden for three months.
3 When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him; coating it with bitumen and pitch, she put the child inside and laid it among the reeds at the River's edge.
4 His sister took up position some distance away to see what would happen to him.
5 Now Pharaoh's daughter went down to bathe in the river, while her maids walked along the riverside. Among the reeds she noticed the basket, and she sent her maid to fetch it.
6 She opened it and saw the child: the baby was crying. Feeling sorry for it, she said, 'This is one of the little Hebrews.'
7 The child's sister then said to Pharaoh's daughter, 'Shall I go and find you a nurse among the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?'
8 'Yes,' said Pharaoh's daughter, and the girl went and called the child's own mother.
9 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, 'Take this child away and nurse it for me. I shall pay you myself for doing so.' So the woman took the child away and nursed it.
10 When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter who treated him like a son; she named him Moses 'because', she said, 'I drew him out of the water.'
11 It happened one day, when Moses was grown up, that he went to see his kinsmen. While he was watching their forced labour he also saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his kinsmen.
12 Looking this way and that and seeing no one in sight, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
13 On the following day he came back, and there were two Hebrews, fighting. He said to the man who was in the wrong, 'What do you mean by hitting your kinsman?'
14 'And who appointed you', the man retorted, 'to be prince over us and judge? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?' Moses was frightened. 'Clearly that business has come to light,' he thought.
15 When Pharaoh heard of the matter, he tried to put Moses to death, but Moses fled from Pharaoh. He went into Midianite territory and sat down beside a well.
16 Now there was a priest of Midian with seven daughters. They used to come to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.
17 Some shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses sprang to their help and watered their flock.
18 When they returned to their father Reuel, he said to them, 'Why are you back so early today?'
19 'An Egyptian protected us from the shepherds,' they said, 'and he even drew water for us and watered the flock.'
20 'And where is he?' he asked his daughters. 'Why did you leave the man there? Ask him to eat with us.'
21 Moses agreed to stay on there with the man, who gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage.
22 She gave birth to a son, whom he named Gershom 'because', he said, 'I am an alien in a foreign land.'
23 During this long period the king of Egypt died. The Israelites, groaning in their slavery, cried out for help and from the depths of their slavery their cry came up to God.
24 God heard their groaning; God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
25 God saw the Israelites and took note.
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Exodus 2 reports the birth of Moses and his escape from Egypt, where he was eventually raised at the house of a priest in Midian. Moses would become the great leader of the Israelites and God's instrument to free them from Egyptian slavery. Following are five verses from different Bible books related to the topics addressed in Exodus 2:
Genesis 39:20: "As soon as Joseph came close to the house, she took him through the tunic and said, 'Let's go, lie down with me!' But he left the tunic in her hands, ran away and went out. " This verse illustrates the importance of Moses' escape from Egypt to escape the right death. Moses had to flee to Midian, just as Joseph fled the seduction of Potifar's wife.
Deuteronomy 32:10: "He found him in a deserted land, in a wilderness of wild howls, surrounded him from care, protected him as the girl from his eyes." This verse highlights how God took care of Moses and protected him in the foreign earth of Midian, just as God protected and took care of Israel during the desert journey.
Isaiah 43:1: "But now, thus saith the Lord, he who created him, O Jacob, he who formed him, O Israel: 'No theme, for I rescued him; I called him by name; you are mine.' "This verse shows how God freed Israel from Egyptian slavery and called them by name, just as God used Moses to liberate the Israelites and guide them to the covenant with God.
Hebrews 11:24-25: "By faith, Moses, when he became great, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, preferring to be mistreated with God's people to enjoy the transient pleasures of sin." This verse highlights Moses' choice to renounce the comfort and privilege of Pharaoh's house to be with his enslaved people and suffer because of them, just as Jesus renounced his divine privileges to suffer and die for the sins of the world.
Exodus 3:10: "Now go, for I am sending him to Pharaoh to take my people out of Egypt, the Israelites." This verse begins the call of Moses for God to lead the liberation of the Israelites of Egyptian slavery, and is the starting point for the mission of Moses that began with his escape from Egypt and culminated with the delivery of the law and the covenant on the mount Sinai.
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