Dual Panel1NOW [Amram] a man of the house of Levi [the priestly tribe] went and took as his wife [Jochebed] a daughter of Levi.
2And the woman became pregnant and bore a son; and when she saw that he was [exceedingly] beautiful, she hid him three months.
3And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark {or} basket made of bulrushes {or} papyrus [making it watertight by] daubing it with bitumen and pitch. Then she put the child in it and laid it among the rushes by the brink of the river [Nile].
4And his sister [Miriam] stood some distance away to learn what would be done to him.
5Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens walked along the bank; she saw the ark among the rushes and sent her maid to fetch it.
6When she opened it, she saw the child; and behold, the baby cried. And she took pity on him and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children!
7Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call a nurse of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?
8Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and called the child's mother.
9Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages. So the woman took the child and nursed it.
10And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. And she called him Moses, for she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
11One day, after Moses was grown, it happened that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of [Moses'] brethren.
12He looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
13He went out the second day and saw two Hebrew men quarreling {and} fighting; and he said to the unjust aggressor, Why are you striking your comrade?
14And the man said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Then Moses was afraid and thought, Surely this thing is known.
15When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh's presence and took refuge in the land of Midian, where he sat down by a well.
16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
17The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock.
18And when they came to Reuel [Jethro] their father, he said, How is it that you have come so soon today?
19They said, An Egyptian delivered us from the shepherds; also he drew water for us and watered the flock.
20He said to his daughters, Where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.
21And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
22And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom [expulsion, or a stranger there]; for he said, I have been a stranger {and} a sojourner in a foreign land.
23However, after a long time [nearly forty years] the king of Egypt died; and the Israelites were sighing {and} groaning because of the bondage. They kept crying, and their cry because of slavery ascended to God.
24And God heard their sighing {and} groaning and [earnestly] remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25God saw the Israelites and took knowledge of them {and} concerned Himself about them [knowing all, understanding, remembering all].