Êxodo 2

¹ And there went aThis Levite was called Amram, who married Jochebed in (Exo_6:20).man of the house of Levi, and took [to wife] a daughter of Levi.

² And the woman coceiued and bare a sonne: and when she saw that he was faire, she hid him three moneths.

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, andCommitting him to the providence of God, whom she could not keep from the rage of the tyrant.put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river's brink.

⁴ Now his sister stood a farre off, to wit what would come of him.

⁵ Then ye daughter of Pharaoh came downe to wash her in the riuer, and her maidens walked by the riuers side: and when shee sawe the arke among the bulrushes, she sent her maide to fet it.

⁶ Then she opened it, and sawe it was a childe: and beholde, the babe wept: so she had compassion on it, and sayde, This is one of the Ebrewes children.

⁷ Then said his sister vnto Pharaohs daughter, Shall I go and cal vnto thee a nurce of the Ebrew women to nurce thee the childe?

⁸ And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called theMan's counsel cannot hinder that which God has determined shall come to pass.child's mother.

⁹ To whome Pharaohs daughter sayde, Take this childe away, and nurce it for me, and I wil reward thee. Then the woman tooke the childe and nurced him.

¹⁰ Nowe the childe grewe, and she brought him vnto Pharaohs daughter, and he was as her sonne, and she called his name Moses, because, said she, I drewe him out of the water.

¹¹ And it came to pass in those days, when Moses wasThat is, was forty years old; (Act_7:23).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, heBeing assured that God had appointed him to deliver the Israelites; (Act_7:25).slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

¹³ Againe he came forth the second day, and behold, two Ebrewes stroue: and he said vnto him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellowe?

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 MosesThough by his fear he showed his weakness, yet faith covered it; (Heb_11:27).feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

¹⁵ Now Pharaoh heard this matter, & sought to slay Moses: therefore Moses fled from Pharaoh, and dwelt in the lande of Midian, and hee sate downe by a well.

¹⁶ And the Priest of Midian had seue daughters, which came and drewe water, and filled the troghes, for to water their fathers sheepe.

¹⁷ Then the shepherds came and droue them away: but Moses rose vp and defended them, and watered their sheepe.

¹⁸ And whe they came to Reuel their father, he said, Howe are ye come so soone to day?

¹⁹ And they saide, A man of Egypt deliuered vs from the hand of the shepherdes, and also drew vs water ynough, and watered the sheepe.

²⁰ And he said unto his daughters, And where [is] he? why [is] it [that] ye have left the man?In which he demonstrated a thankful mind, which would reward the good done to his.call him, that he may eat bread.

²¹ And Moses agreed to dwell with the man: who gaue vnto Moses Zipporah his daughter:

²² And she bare a sonne, whose name he called Gershom: for he said, I haue bene a stranger in a strange lande.

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 theyGod humbles his by afflictions, that they should cry to him, and receive the fruit of his promise.cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

²⁴ Then God heard their mone, and God remembred his couenant with Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob.

²⁵ And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God hadHe judges their causes or acknowledged them as his own.respect unto [them].