King James Version
Exodus • Chapter 2
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And a man went from the house of Levi and took a daughter of Levi.
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And the woman conceived and bore a son, and she saw that he was good, and she hid him for three months.
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And she could no longer hide him, so she took a basket made of bulrushes and coated it with asphalt and pitch, and she placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the river.
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And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.
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And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe by the river, and her maidens walked beside the river, and she saw the basket among the reeds, and she sent her maid and took it.
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And she opened it and saw the boy, and behold, the boy was crying, and she had compassion on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrew children."
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And his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "I will go and call a nurse from the Hebrew women, and she will nurse the child for you."
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And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, "Go," and the young woman went and called the mother of the child.
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And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.
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And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
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And it came to pass in those days, and Moses grew up, and he went out to his brothers, and he saw their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian man beating a Hebrew man, one of his brothers.
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And he turned this way and that and saw that there was no man, and he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
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And he went out on the second day, and behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the one who was in the wrong, "Why are you striking your fellow?"
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And he said, "Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you going to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and said, "Surely, the matter is known."
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And Pharaoh heard this word, and he sought to kill Moses, and Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he sat by the well.
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And the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
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And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses rose up and saved them and watered their flock.
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And they came to Reuel, their father, and he said, "Why have you hurried to come today?"
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And the Egyptian man said, "He saved us from the hand of the shepherds, and he even drew water for us and he watered the flock."
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And he said to his daughters, "Why have you left the man? Call him and let him eat bread."
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And Joel Moshe spoke to the man and gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
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And she bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land."
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And it happened in those many days that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry rose up to God from the work.
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And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
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And God saw the children of Israel, and God knew.