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.”(a)

Moses in Midian

11 Years later,(b) after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people(c) and observed their forced labor.(A) He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.

Footnotes:

a. Exodus 2:10: The name Moses sounds like “drawing out” in Hb and “born” in Egyptian.
b. Exodus 2:11: Lit And it was in those days
c. Exodus 2:11: Lit his brothers

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