And there was a certain man from the tribe of Levi, and he took of the daughters of Levi, and had her.
And in and bore a male. And seeing that it was fair, they sheltered it months
But when they were not able it took a wicker basket of papyrus, and besmeared it with tar, and put the male child into it, and put it into the marsh by the river.
And spied out far off to learn what to him.
went down to bathe upon the river, and her handmaidens came near unto the river. And they saw the wicker basket in the marsh, the handmaiden to take it up.
And opening, she sees a male child weeping in the wicker basket. And spared and said, from
And said to the daughter of Pharaoh, I will call for you a woman nursing from the Hebrews, and she will suckle for you the male child.
And said Go! And going, the young woman called the mother of the male child.
said Carefully keep for me this male child, and suckle it for me, and I will give to you the wage. took the male child, and suckled it.
maturing she brought it to the daughter of Pharaoh. And he became to her for a son. And she named his name Moses. Saying, For from the water I took him up.
And it came to pass in days older he went forth to his brethren of the sons of Israel. And contemplating their misery, he saw an Egyptian man beating a certain Hebrew of his own brethren of the sons of Israel.
And looking about here on this side and here on that side he did not see anyone. And striking the Egyptian, he hid him in the sand.
And coming forth the day he saw two men, Hebrews skirmishing. And he says to the Why do you beat
And he said, Who placed you magistrate and judge over us? Is it that to do away with in which manner you did away yesterday with the Egyptian? feared and said, Surely thus apparent
heard about this thing, and he sought to do away with Moses. withdrew from of Pharaoh, and he dwelt in of Midian. And coming into of Midian, he sat at the well.
And to the priest of Midian there were seven daughters tending the sheep of their father Jethro. And they came to draw water until they filled the troughs to water the sheep of their father Jethro.
And coming, the shepherds cast them away. rose up to rescue them, and he drew water for them, and he watered their sheep.
And they came to Reuel their father. And he said to them, Why you hastened to come today?
And they said, An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he drew water for us, and he watered our sheep.
And he said his daughters, And where is he, and why thus have you left the man? You call him indeed! that he may eat bread.
settled by the man. And he handed over Zipporah his daughter to Moses as wife.
in the woman bore a son, and Moses named his name Gershom, saying that, I am a sojourner in land And still again conceiving, she bore son and he called his name Eliezer, saying that, of my father, my helper, also rescued me from of Pharaoh.
And after days came to an end and groaned from the works, and yelled out. And ascended to God because of the works.
And God listened to their moaning, and God remembered his covenant, the one with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob.
And God looked upon the sons of Israel, and he was made known to them.