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2:1  Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman.
2:2  The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.
2:3  But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
2:4  Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.
2:5  Pharaoh's daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. Seeing the basket among the reeds, she sent her slave girl to get it.
2:6  When she opened it, she saw the child--a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, "This is one of the Hebrew boys."
2:7  Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a woman from the Hebrews to nurse the boy for you?""
2:8  Go," Pharaoh's daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy's mother.
2:9  Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages." So the woman took the boy and nursed him.
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."
2:11  Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.
2:12  Looking all around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand.
2:13  The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you attacking your neighbor?""
2:14  Who made you a leader and judge over us?" the man replied. "Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses became afraid and thought: What I did is certainly known.
2:15  When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well.
2:16  Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
2:17  Then some shepherds arrived and drove them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their flock.
2:18  When they returned to their father Reuel he asked, "Why have you come back so quickly today?"
2:19  They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.""
2:20  So where is he?" he asked his daughters. "Why then did you leave the man behind? Invite him to eat dinner."
2:21  Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
2:22  She gave birth to a son whom he named Gershom, for he said, "I have been a foreigner in a foreign land."
2:23  After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, and they cried out; and their cry for help ascended to God because of the difficult labor.
2:24  So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
2:25  God saw the Israelites, and He took notice.