<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1001585">Exodus</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1001609">Chapter 2</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1001586">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1001635">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Moses and the Deliverance of Israel from Bondage in Egypt</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001610">1</a>. AND there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001611">2</a>. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001612">3</a>. 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 put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001613">4</a>. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001614">5</a>. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001615">6</a>. And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept.  And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001616">7</a>. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001617">8</a>. And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go.  And the maid went and called the child's mother.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001618">9</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001619">10</a>. And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son.  And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001620">11</a>. And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001621">12</a>. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001622">13</a>. And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001623">14</a>. And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian?  And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001624">15</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001625">16</a>. Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001626">17</a>. And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001627">18</a>. And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001628">19</a>. And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001629">20</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001630">21</a>. And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001631">22</a>. And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001632">23</a>. And it came to pass in process of time, 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001633">24</a>. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001634">25</a>. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.</li>
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