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The Birth of Moses
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Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, SCode Exo 6:20 Num 26:59 1Chr 23:14
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and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. SCode Act 7:20~21 Heb 11:23~24
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But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. SCode Exo 2:5 Isa 19:6
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His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. SCode Exo 15:20 Num 26:59
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Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it.
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She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said.
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Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, "Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?"
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"Yes, go," she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother.
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Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you." So the woman took the baby and nursed him.
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When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, "I drew him out of the water." SCode 2Sam 22:17 Psa 18:16
Moses Flees to Midian
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One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. SCode Exo 1:11 Act 7:23 Heb 11:24~27
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Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. SCode Act 7:24
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The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?" SCode Act 7:23~28
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The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and thought, "What I did must have become known." SCode Lk 12:14
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When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. SCode Gen 29:2 Gen 24:11 Act 7:29
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Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. SCode Gen 29:10 Gen 24:11 Exo 3:1 1Sam 9:11
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Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock. SCode Gen 29:10
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When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, "Why have you returned so early today?" SCode Exo 3:1 Exo 18:1~3 Exo 18:5 Exo 18:9 Exo 18:12 Exo 4:18 Num 10:29
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They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock." SCode Exo 2:17
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"And where is he?" Reuel asked his daughters. "Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat." SCode Gen 43:25 Gen 31:54
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Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. SCode Exo 4:25
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Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, "I have become a foreigner in a foreign land." SCode Act 7:29~30 Heb 11:13~14
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During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. SCode Gen 18:20~21 Exo 7:7 Exo 3:9 Deu 26:7 Act 7:23 Jas 5:4
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God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. SCode Gen 46:4 Gen 15:14 Exo 6:5 Psa 105:8 Psa 105:42 Psa 106:45
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So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them. SCode Exo 3:7 Exo 3:16 Exo 4:31 Lk 1:25
NIV Footnotes
  1. 2:3 The Hebrew can also mean ark, as in Gen. 6:14.
  2. 2:10 Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out.
  3. 2:22 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for a foreigner there.
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