Later, the woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She saw that he was a beautiful child, and hid him for three months.

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus container, coated it with asphalt and pitch, placed the child in it, and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

ThenPharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile River to bathe while her maids walked along the river bank. She saw the container among the reeds and sent a servant girl to get it.

When she opened it and saw the child, the little boy suddenly began crying. Filled with compassion for him, she exclaimed, "This is one of the Hebrew children!"

Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call one of the nursing Hebrew women so she can nurse the child for you?"

After the child had grown 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."

Later she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, because he used to say, "I became an alien in a foreign land."

Then the LORD withdrew from him, and she said, ""a bridegroom of blood because of circumcision."

Amram married Jochebed, his father's sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived for 137 years.

Then Aaron married Elisheba daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon. She bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Aaron's son Eleazar married one of Putiel's daughters, and she bore him Phineas. These are the heads of the ancestors of the descendants of Levi, according to their families.

Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken back Moses' wife Zipporah after she had been sent away,

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and children belong to her master, and he is to go out by himself.

"When a man sells his daughter as a servant, she won't go out as the male servants do.

If she's displeasing to her master who selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He does not have the right to sell her to foreign people, because he has dealt unfairly with her.

If he does not do these three things for her, she may go out without paying anything at all."

"If a man strikes his male or female servant with a stick and he or she dies as a direct result, the master must be punished.

"When a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and has sexual relations with her, he must pay her bride price, and she is to become his wife.

Every skilled woman spun with her hands, and brought what she had spun: blue, purple, and scarlet material, and fine linen.