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Exodus 2
English Standard Version
The Birth of Moses
2 Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3 When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes[a] and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank. 4 And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. 5 Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. 6 When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews' children.” 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child's mother. 9 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”[b]
Moses Flees to Midian
11 One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.[c] 12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?” 14 He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.” 15 When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.
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. 17 The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock. 18 When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?” 19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.” 20 He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.” 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah. 22 She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner[d] in a foreign land.”
God Hears Israel's Groaning
23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
Footnotes
16th April 2023 - ”What’s in a name?” - Exodus 3:7-22
9th April 2023 - ”Jesus Appears to the Disciples” - John 20:19-31
26th March 2023 - ”GOD COMES DOWN” - Exodus 3:1-10
12th March 2023 - ”Dark Clouds, Big Promises” - Exodus 1 (ESV)
5th March 2023 - ”IF GOD BE FOR US...” - 2 Kings 6:8-23 (ESV)
26th February 2023 - ”What Kind of Leaders?” - Acts 20:2-38
19th February 2023 - ”Following Jesus is Costly” - Acts 19:11-20:1
12th February 2023 - ”Truth Really Matters” - Acts 18:24-19:10
5th February 2023 - ”OUNUMBERED, NOT OVERPOWERED” - 1 Kings 18:16-39
29th January 2023 - ”GOD MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS” - Acts 18:1-23
22nd January 2023 - ”THE GOD YOU NEED TO KNOW” - Acts 17:16-34
15th January 2023 - ”PREACH-SUFFER-REPEAT” - Acts 17:1-15
8th January 2023 - ”Chains Shall He Break” - Acts 16_16-40
1st January 2023 - ”Choose Wisely” - 2 Chronicles 1:7-13
25th December 2022 - ”Christmas Day Service” - Luke 2:1-16
18th December 2022 - ”BORN TO GIVE SECOND BIRTH” - John 3:1-21
11th December 2022 - ”WHO IS GOD AND LORD OF ALL” - John 1:1-18
27th November 2022 - ”God’s Mission Breaks New Ground” - Acts 15:36 - 16:15
20th November 2022 - ”WHAT MAKES US CHRISTIAN” - Acts 15:1-35
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