But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and she coated it with tar and with pitch, and she placed the boy in it, and she placed [it] among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.

And a man from the {family} of Levi went, and he took {a descendent of Levi}.

And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.

And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to wash at the Nile, [while] her maidservants were walking alongside the Nile, and she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds, and she sent her slave woman [for it] and took it

and opened [it] and saw him--the boy--and it was a lad weeping, and she had compassion for him and said, "This [must be] from the boys of the Hebrews."

And the boy grew, and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he became her son, and she called his name Moses, and she said, "Because I drew him out from the water."

And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, "Go." And the girl went, and she called the mother of the boy.

And the daughter of Pharaoh said, "Take this boy and nurse him for me, and I myself will give you wages, and the woman took the boy, and she nursed him.

And his sister said to the daughter of Pharaoh, "Shall I go and call for you a woman from the Hebrews [who is] nursing [so that] she will nurse the boy for you?"

And he turned here and there, and he saw no one, and he struck the Egyptian, and he hid him in the sand.

[Now] the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

And Pharaoh heard this matter, and he sought to kill Moses, and Moses fled from Pharaoh, and he lived in the land of Midian, and he lived at {a certain well}.

And he went out on the second day, and there were two Hebrew men fighting, and he said to the guilty [one], "Why do you strike your neighbor?"

And the woman conceived, and she gave birth to a son, and she saw him, that he was a fine baby, and she hid him three months.

And they came to Reuel, their father, and he said, "{Why have you come so quickly} today?"

And he said, "Who {appointed you as a commander} and a judge over us? [Are] you intending to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?" And Moses was afraid, and he said, "Surely the matter has become known."

And Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.

And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom because he said, "I am an alien in a foreign land."

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,

And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.

And they said, "An Egyptian man delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he even drew [water] for us and watered the flock."

And he said to his daughters, "Where [is] he? {Why then} have you left the man? {Call him so that he can eat some food}."

and God saw the {Israelites}, and God took notice.

{And then} in those days when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers, and he saw their {forced labor}, and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man, [one of] his brothers.

{And then} during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the {Israelites} groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God.