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Title:       Old Testament, The
Book:        Exodus
Author:      Various
Date:        1885

Chapter 2

     And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of
Levi.  And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he
was a goodly child, she hid him three months.  And when she could not longer
hide him, she took for him an ark of ^3 bulrushes, and daubed it with ^4 slime
and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the
river's brink.  And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to
him.  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.  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.  Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I
go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for
thee?  And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go.  And the maiden went and called
the child's mother.  And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child
away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.  And the woman took
the child, and nursed it.  And the child grew, and she brought him unto
Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son.  And she called his name ^1 Moses,
and said, Because I ^2 drew him out of the water.

[Footnote 3: That is, papyrus.]

[Footnote 4: That is, bitumen.]

[Footnote 1: Heb. Mosheh.]

[Footnote 2: Heb. mashah, to draw out.]

     And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went
out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian
smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.  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.  And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews
were striving together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore
smitest thou thy fellow?  And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over
us?  thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses
feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.  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.

     Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew
water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.  And the
shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and
watered their flock.  And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How
is it that ye are come so soon to-day?  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.  And he said unto his daughters, And where is he?  why is
it that ye have left the man?  call him, that he may eat bread.  And Moses was
content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. And
she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been ^3 a
sojourner in a foreign land.

[Footnote 3: Heb. ger.]

     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 unto God by reason of the bondage.  And God
heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with
Isaac, and with Jacob.  And God saw the children of Israel, and God took
knowledge of them.