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1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took ­to wife a daugh­ter of Levi. 2 And the wom­an con­ceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a good­ly child, she hid him three months. 3 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. 4 And his sis­ter stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. 5 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. 6 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. 7 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? 8 And Pharaoh's daugh­ter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's moth­er. 9 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. 10 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. 11 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. 12 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. 13 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? 14 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. 15 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. 16 Now the priest of Mid­i­an had sev­en daugh­ters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to wa­ter their father's flock. 17 And the shep­herds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and wa­tered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel their fa­ther, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day? 19 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. 20 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. 21 And Moses was con­tent to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zip­po­rah his daugh­ter. 22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Ger­shom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. 23 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. 24 And God heard their groan­ing, and God re­mem­bered his covenant with Abra­ham, with Isaac, and with Ja­cob. 25 And God looked upon the chil­dren of Is­rael, and God had re­spect unto them.