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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Birth of Moses</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_2_1"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.1" class="v1_2_1">1</span>During this time a man from the tribe of Levi married a woman of his own tribe, </span><span class="v1_2_2"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.2" class="v1_2_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.2.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and she bore him a son. When she saw what a fine baby he was, she hid him for three months. </span><span class="v1_2_3"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.3" class="v1_2_3">3</span>But when she could not hide him any longer, she took a basket made of reeds and covered it with tar to make it watertight. She put the baby in it and then placed it in the tall grass at the edge of the river. </span><span class="v1_2_4"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.4" class="v1_2_4">4</span>The baby's sister stood some distance away to see what would happen to him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_2_5"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.5" class="v1_2_5">5</span>The king's daughter came down to the river to bathe, while her servants walked along the bank. Suddenly she noticed the basket in the tall grass and sent a slave woman to get it. </span><span class="v1_2_6"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.6" class="v1_2_6">6</span>The princess opened it and saw a baby boy. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_2_7"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.7" class="v1_2_7">7</span>Then his sister asked her, “Shall I go and call a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for you?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_2_8"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.8" class="v1_2_8">8</span>“Please do,” she answered. So the girl went and brought the baby's own mother. </span><span class="v1_2_9"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.9" class="v1_2_9">9</span>The princess told the woman, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So she took the baby and nursed him. </span><span class="v1_2_10"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.10" class="v1_2_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.2.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Later, when the child was old enough, she took him to the king's daughter, who adopted him as her own son. She said to herself, “I pulled him out of the water, and so I name him Moses.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.2.10!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><h3 class="s">Moses Escapes to Midian</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_2_11"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.11" class="v1_2_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.2.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> <a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.2.11!x.2" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his people, the Hebrews, and he saw how they were forced to do hard labor. He even saw an Egyptian kill a Hebrew, one of Moses' own people. </span><span class="v1_2_12"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.12" class="v1_2_12">12</span>Moses looked all around, and when he saw that no one was watching, he killed the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand. </span><span class="v1_2_13"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.13" class="v1_2_13">13</span>The next day he went back and saw two Hebrew men fighting. He said to the one who was in the wrong, “Why are you beating up a fellow Hebrew?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_2_14"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.14" class="v1_2_14">14</span>The man answered, “Who made you our ruler and judge? Are you going to kill me just as you killed that Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and said to himself, “People have found out what I have done.” </span><span class="v1_2_15"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.15-Exod.2.16" class="v1_2_15">15-16</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.2.15-Exod.2.16!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When the king heard about what had happened, he tried to have Moses killed, but Moses fled and went to live in the land of Midian.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_2_15">One day, when Moses was sitting by a well, seven daughters of Jethro, the priest of Midian, came to draw water and fill the troughs for their father's sheep and goats. </span><span class="v1_2_17"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.17" class="v1_2_17">17</span>But some shepherds drove Jethro's daughters away. Then Moses went to their rescue and watered their animals for them. </span><span class="v1_2_18"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.18" class="v1_2_18">18</span>When they returned to their father, he asked, “Why have you come back so early today?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_2_19"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.19" class="v1_2_19">19</span>“An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they answered, “and he even drew water for us and watered our animals.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_2_20"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.20" class="v1_2_20">20</span>“Where is he?” he asked his daughters. “Why did you leave the man out there? Go and invite him to eat with us.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_2_21"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.21" class="v1_2_21">21</span>So Moses decided to live there, and Jethro gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage, </span><span class="v1_2_22"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.22" class="v1_2_22">22</span>who bore him a son. Moses said to himself, “I am a foreigner in this land, and so I name him Gershom.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.2.22!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_2_23"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.23" class="v1_2_23">23</span>Years later the king of Egypt died, but the Israelites were still groaning under their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry went up to God, </span><span class="v1_2_24"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.24" class="v1_2_24">24</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.2.24!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> who heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. </span><span class="v1_2_25"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.2.25" class="v1_2_25">25</span>He saw the slavery of the Israelites and was concerned for them.<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.2.25!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.10: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Moses: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name sounds like the Hebrew for “pull out.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.22: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Gershom: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name sounds like the Hebrew for “foreigner.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.25: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">was concerned for them; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">one ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">revealed himself to them.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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