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[1] And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
[2] And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
[3] And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
[4] And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.
[5] And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.
[6] And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept. And she had compassion on him, and said: 'This is one of the Hebrews children.'
[7] Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter: 'Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebre women, that she may nurse the child for thee?'
[8] And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: 'Go.' And the maiden went and called the child's mother.
[9] And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her: 'Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.' And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
[10] And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said: 'Because I drew him out of the water.'
[11] And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
[12] And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
[13] And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong: 'Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?'
[14] And he said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said: 'Surely the thing is known.'
[15] Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.
[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.
[17] And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
[18] And when they came to Reuel their father, he said: 'How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?'
[19] And they said: 'An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.'
[20] And he said unto his daughters: 'And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.'
[21] And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah h daughter.
[22] And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said: 'I have been a stranger in a strange land.'
[23] And it came to pass in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
[24] And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
[25] And God saw the children of Israel, and God took cognizance of them.
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