Exodus 2:1-17
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1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
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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.
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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.
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4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.