When she saw that he was
a fine child, she hid him three months.
002:003 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus
basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch.
She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by
the river's bank.
002:004 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
002:005 Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river.
Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket
among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.
002:006 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried.
She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of
the Hebrews' children."
002:007 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go
and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she
may nurse the child for you?"
002:008 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The maiden went and called
the child's mother.
002:009 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away,
and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages."
The woman took the child, and nursed it.
002:010 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter,
and he became her son. She named him Moses,{"Moses"
sounds like the Hebrew for "draw out".} and said, "Because I
drew him out of the water."
002:011 It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up,
that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens.
He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
002:012 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there
was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
002:013 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews
were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong,
"Why do you strike your fellow?"
002:014 He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan
to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid,
and said, "Surely this thing is known."
002:015 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses.
But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land
of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
002:016 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters.
They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water
their father's flock.
002:017 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up
and helped them, and watered their flock.
002:018 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it
that you have returned so early today?"
002:019 They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds,
and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."
002:020 He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you
have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
002:021 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave
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