Exodus 2
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- And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to
wife a daughter of Levi.
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- And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she
saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
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- And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him
an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the
child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
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- And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done
to him.
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- And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at
the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she
saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
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- And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and,
behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one
of the Hebrews' children.
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- Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go
and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child
for thee?
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- And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid
went and called the child's mother.
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- 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 women
took the child, and nursed it.
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- And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's
daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she
said, Because I drew him out of the water.
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- And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown,
that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he
spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
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- And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw
that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
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- And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of
the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong,
Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
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- And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared,
and said, Surely this thing is known.
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- 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.
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- Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they
came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
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- And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses
stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
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- And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How
is it that ye are come so soon to day?
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- And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand
of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
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- 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.
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- And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave
Moses Zipporah his daughter.
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- And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom:
for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
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- And it came to pass in process of time, 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.
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- And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his
covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
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- And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had
respect unto them.
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