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Exodus 2:1 (show verse)

A man of the family of Levi married the daughter of a descendant of Levi.

Exodus 2:2 (show verse)

Later, the woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She saw that he was a beautiful child, and hid him for three months.

Exodus 2:3 (show verse)

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus container, coated it with asphalt and pitch, placed the child in it, and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
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Exodus 2:4 (show verse)

Then his sister positioned herself some distance away in order to find out what would happen to him.

Exodus 2:5 (show verse)

ThenPharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile River to bathe while her maids walked along the river bank. She saw the container among the reeds and sent a servant girl to get it.

Exodus 2:6 (show verse)

When she opened it and saw the child, the little boy suddenly began crying. Filled with compassion for him, she exclaimed, "This is one of the Hebrew children!"

Exodus 2:7 (show verse)

Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call one of the nursing Hebrew women so she can nurse the child for you?"

Exodus 2:8 (show verse)

Pharaoh's daughter told her, "Go," so the young girl went and called the child's mother.

Exodus 2:9 (show verse)

Pharaoh's daughter instructed her, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I'll pay you a salary." So the woman took the child and nursed him.

Exodus 2:10 (show verse)

After the child had grown 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."

Exodus 2:11 (show verse)

Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people, and took notice of their heavy burdens. He saw an Egyptian beating up a Hebrew, one of his own people.

Exodus 2:12 (show verse)

Looking around and seeing no one else, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Exodus 2:13 (show verse)

Going out the next day, Moses noticed two Hebrew men fighting right in front of him. He told the one who was at fault, "Why did you strike your companion?"

Exodus 2:14 (show verse)

The man replied, "Who appointed you to be an official judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses became terrified and told himself, "Certainly this event has become known!"

Exodus 2:15 (show verse)

When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he tried to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh, settled in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well.

Exodus 2:16 (show verse)

Meanwhile, the seven daughters of a certain Midianite priest would come to draw water in order to fill water troughs for their father's sheep.

Exodus 2:17 (show verse)

Some shepherds came to drive them away, but Moses got up, came to their rescue, and watered their sheep.

Exodus 2:18 (show verse)

When they returned to their father Reuel, he asked, "Why have you returned so quickly today?"

Exodus 2:19 (show verse)

"An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds," they replied, "and he even drew water for us and watered the sheep!"

Exodus 2:20 (show verse)

"Then where is he?" He asked his daughters. "Why did you leave the man behind? Go invite him to have something to eat."

Exodus 2:21 (show verse)

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

Exodus 2:22 (show verse)

Later she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, because he used to say, "I became an alien in a foreign land."

Exodus 2:23 (show verse)

The king of Egypt eventually died, and the Israelis groaned because of the bondage. They cried out, and their cry for deliverance from slavery ascended to God.

Exodus 2:24 (show verse)

God heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Exodus 2:25 (show verse)

God watched the Israelis and took notice of them.