Read Exodus 2

World English Bible · 25 verses

1. ¹ A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The young woman went and called the child’s mother.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” The woman took the child, and nursed him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ God saw the children of Israel, and God understood.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org