2:1After these things there went out a man of the house of Levi: and he took a wife of his own stock. 2:2And she conceived, and bore a son: and seeing him handsome, she hid him for three months. 2:3And when she could no longer conceal him, she took a little basket of bulrushes, and smeared it with bitumen and pitch: and she put the little infant inside, and set him out in the sedge of the river's bank, his sister standing far off, and watching the outcome of the matter. 2:5But look, the daughter of Pharaoh was coming down to wash herself in the river: and her girls were walking along the edge of the riverbed.
2:5And when she had seen the little basket among the papyrus, she sent one of her maidservants: and opening it, when it had been brought, and seeing in it a little one crying, having taken pity on him, she said: "This is one of the infants of the Hebrews." 2:7To her the boy's sister said: "Do you want me to go, and call for you a Hebrew woman, who can nurse the little infant?" 2:8She answered: "Go." 2:8The girl went on and called her mother. 2:9To her the daughter of Pharaoh spoke: "Take this boy," she said, "and nurse him for me: I will give you your wages." 2:9The woman took him up, and nursed the boy: and when he was grown up she handed him over to the daughter of Pharaoh.
2:10And she adopted him in place of a son, and called his name Moses, saying: "Because I took him from the water." 2:11In those days, after Moses had grown, he went out to his brothers: and he saw their affliction, and an Egyptian man striking one of the Hebrews, his brothers. 2:12And when he had looked around this way and that, and had seen that no one was present, he hid the Egyptian, struck down, in the sand. 2:13And going out on the next day he caught sight of two Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to the one who was doing the wrong: "Why are you striking your neighbour?" 2:14He answered: "Who appointed you prince and judge over us?
2:14Surely you do not want to kill me, as yesterday you killed the Egyptian?" 2:14Moses was afraid, and said: "How has this thing become known openly?" 2:15And Pharaoh heard this talk, and was seeking to kill Moses: and he, fleeing from his sight, stayed in the land of Midian, and sat beside a well. 2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, who came to draw water: and, the troughs having been filled, they were wanting to water their father's flocks. 2:17The shepherds came upon them, and drove them away: and Moses got up, and, the girls having been defended, watered their sheep. 2:18And when they had returned to Reuel their father, he said to them: "Why have you come more quickly than usual?"
2:19They answered: "An Egyptian man freed us from the hand of the shepherds: and besides he also drew water with us, and gave drink to the sheep." 2:20But he: "Where is he?" 2:20He said: "Why have you let the man go? 2:20Call him, so that he may eat bread." 2:21So Moses swore that he would live with him. 2:21And he took Zipporah his daughter as wife: and she bore him a son, whom he called Gershom, saying: "I have been a newcomer in a foreign land." 2:22And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: "For the God of my father, my helper, has snatched me from the hand of Pharaoh."
2:23But after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the sons of Israel, groaning, cried out because of the works: and their shout went up to God from the works. 2:24And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he had struck with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 2:25And the Lord looked upon the sons of Israel and knew them.