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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 2 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Exodus 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/1.htm" title="Exodus 1">◄</a> Exodus 2 <a href="../exodus/3.htm" title="Exodus 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/exodus/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Birth of Moses</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew can also mean ark, as in Gen. 6:14.">a</a></sup></span> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out.">b</a></sup></span> saying, “I drew him out of the water.”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Moses Flees to Midian</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for a foreigner there.">c</a></sup></span> saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Hebrew can also mean <i>ark</i>, as in Gen. 6:14.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Moses</i> sounds like the Hebrew for <i>draw out.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Gershom</i> sounds like the Hebrew for <i>a foreigner there.</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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