2:5 Then the daughter of Pharaoh 10 came down to wash herself 11 by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river, 12 and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants, 13 took it, 14 2:6 opened it, 15 and saw the child 16 – a boy, 17 crying! 18 – and she felt compassion 19 for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
2:7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get 20 a nursing woman 21 for you from the Hebrews, so that she may nurse 22 the child for you?” 2:8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Yes, do so.” 23 So the young girl 24 went and got 25 the child’s mother. 26 2:9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child 27 and nurse him for me, and I will pay your 28 wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.
2:10 When the child grew older 29 she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. 30 She named him Moses, saying, “Because I drew him from the water.” 31
2:11 32 In those days, 33 when 34 Moses had grown up, he went out to his people 35 and observed 36 their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking 37 a Hebrew man, one of his own people. 38 2:12 He looked this way and that 39 and saw that no one was there, 40 and then he attacked 41 the Egyptian and concealed the body 42 in the sand. 2:13 When he went out 43 the next day, 44 there were 45 two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the one who was in the wrong, 46 “Why are you attacking 47 your fellow Hebrew?” 48
2:14 The man 49 replied, “Who made you a ruler 50 and a judge over us? Are you planning 51 to kill me like you killed that 52 Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking, 53 “Surely what I did 54 has become known.” 2:15 When Pharaoh heard 55 about this event, 56 he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled 57 from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, 58 and he settled 59 by a certain well. 60
2:16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw 61 water 62 and fill 63 the troughs in order to water their father’s flock. 2:17 When some 64 shepherds came and drove them away, 65 Moses came up and defended them 66 and then watered their flock. 2:18 So when they came home 67 to their father Reuel, 68 he asked, “Why have you come home so early 69 today?” 2:19 They said, “An Egyptian man rescued us 70 from the shepherds, 71 and he actually 72 drew water for us and watered the flock!” 2:20 He said 73 to his daughters, “So where is he? 74 Why in the world 75 did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat 76 a meal 77 with us.”
2:21 Moses agreed 78 to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 79 2:22 When she bore 80 a son, Moses 81 named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.” 82
2:23 83 During 84 that long period of time 85 the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites 86 groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry 87 because of their slave labor went up to God. 2:24 God heard their groaning, 88 God remembered 89 his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob, 2:25 God saw 90 the Israelites, and God understood…. 91