| 2:1 | *A man from the household* of Levi married* a woman who was a descendant of Levi.* |
| 2:2 | The woman became pregnant* and gave birth to a son. When* she saw that* he was a healthy* child, she hid him for three months. |
| 2:3 | But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket* for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.* |
| 2:4 | His sister stationed herself* at a distance to find out* what would* happen to him. |
| 2:5 | Then the daughter of Pharaoh* came down to wash herself* by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river,* and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants,* took it,* |
| 2:6 | opened it,* and saw the child* – a boy,* crying!* – and she felt compassion* for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.” |
| 2:7 | Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get* a nursing woman* for you from the Hebrews, so that she may nurse* the child for you?” |
| 2:8 | Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Yes, do so.”* So the young girl* went and got* the child’s mother.* |
| 2:9 | Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child* and nurse him for me, and I will pay your* wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. |
| 2:10 | When the child grew older* she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son.* She named him Moses, saying, “Because I drew him from the water.”* |
| 2:11 | *In those days,* when* Moses had grown up, he went out to his people* and observed* their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking* a Hebrew man, one of his own people.* |
| 2:12 | He looked this way and that* and saw that no one was there,* and then he attacked* the Egyptian and concealed the body* in the sand. |
| 2:13 | When he went out* the next day,* there were* two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the one who was in the wrong,* “Why are you attacking* your fellow Hebrew?”* |
| 2:14 | The man* replied, “Who made you a ruler* and a judge over us? Are you planning* to kill me like you killed that* Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking,* “Surely what I did* has become known.” |
| 2:15 | When Pharaoh heard* about this event,* he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled* from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian,* and he settled* by a certain well.* |
| 2:16 | Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw* water* and fill* the troughs in order to water their father’s flock. |
| 2:17 | When some* shepherds came and drove them away,* Moses came up and defended them* and then watered their flock. |
| 2:18 | So when they came home* to their father Reuel,* he asked, “Why have you come home so early* today?” |
| 2:19 | They said, “An Egyptian man rescued us* from the shepherds,* and he actually* drew water for us and watered the flock!” |
| 2:20 | He said* to his daughters, “So where is he?* Why in the world* did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat* a meal* with us.” |
| 2:21 | Moses agreed* to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.* |
| 2:22 | When she bore* a son, Moses* named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”* |
| 2:23 | *During* that long period of time* the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites* groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry* because of their slave labor went up to God. |
| 2:24 | God heard their groaning,* God remembered* his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob, |
| 2:25 | God saw* the Israelites, and God understood….* |
Exodus 2 - NET Bible [draft]
