Thematic Bible

Exodus 2:1

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

Exodus 2:2

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.

Exodus 2:3

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.

Exodus 2:4

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

Exodus 2:5

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

Exodus 2:6

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."

Exodus 2:7

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?"

Exodus 2:8

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

Exodus 2:9

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.

Exodus 2:10

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."

Exodus 2:11

{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.

Exodus 2:12

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

Exodus 2:13

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?"

Exodus 2:14

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."

Exodus 2:15

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}.

Exodus 2:16

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

Exodus 2:17

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

Exodus 2:18

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

Exodus 2:19

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."

Exodus 2:20

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}."

Exodus 2:21

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

Exodus 2:22

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

Exodus 2:23

{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.

Exodus 2:24

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

Exodus 2:25

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