1And there went a man of the house of Levi , and took to wife a daughter of Levi . 2And the woman conceived , and bare a son : and when she saw him that he was a goodly child , she hid him three months . 3And when she could not longer hide him , she took for him an ark of bulrushes , and daubed it with slime and with pitch ; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river ’s brink . 4And his sister stood afar off , to know what would be done to him . 5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river ; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags , and sent her handmaid to fetch it . 6And she opened it , and saw the child : and , behold , the babe wept . And she had compassion on him , and said, This is one of the Hebrews ’ children . 7Then said his sister to Pharaoh ’s daughter , Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women , that she may nurse the child for thee ? 8And Pharaoh ’s daughter said to her , Go . And the maiden went and called the child ’s mother. 9And 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 . 10And the child grew , and she brought him unto Pharaoh ’s daughter , and he became her son . And she called his name Moses , and said , Because I drew him out of the water .
Moses' Flight to Midian
11And it came to pass in those days , when Moses was grown up , that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens : and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew , one of his brethren. 12And he looked this way and that way , and when he saw that there was no man , he smote the Egyptian , and hid him in the sand . 13And he went out the second day , and , behold , two men of the Hebrews were striving together : and he said to him that did the wrong , Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow ? 14And he said , Who made thee a prince and a judge over us ? thinkest thou to kill me , as thou killedst the Egyptian ? And Moses feared , and said , Surely the thing is known . 15Now 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. 16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters : and they came and drew water , and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock . 17And the shepherds came and drove them away ; but Moses stood up and helped them , and watered their flock . 18And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to-day? 19And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds , and moreover he drew water for us , and watered the flock . 20And 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 . 21And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter . 22And she bare a son , and he called his name Gershom ; for he said , I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.
God Hears the Cry of His People
23And it came to pass in the course of those many days , 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 . 24And God heard their groaning , and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac , and with Jacob . 25And God saw the children of Israel , and God took knowledge of them .