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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/exodus/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">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>About this time, a man and woman from the tribe of Levi got married. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She saw that he was a special baby and kept him hidden for three months. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But when she could no longer hide him, she got a basket made of papyrus reeds and waterproofed it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in the basket and laid it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile River. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The baby’s sister then stood at a distance, watching 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>Soon Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe in the river, and her attendants walked along the riverbank. When the princess saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it for her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When the princess opened it, she saw the baby. The little boy was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This must be one of the Hebrew children,” she said.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the baby’s sister approached the princess. “Should I go and find one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?” she asked.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Yes, do!” the princess replied. So the girl went and called the baby’s mother.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Take this baby and nurse him for me,” the princess told the baby’s mother. “I will pay you for your help.” So the woman took her baby home and nursed him.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Later, when the boy was older, his mother brought him back to Pharaoh’s daughter, who adopted him as her own son. The princess named him Moses,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> for she explained, “I lifted him out of the water.”</p><p class="hdg">Moses Escapes to Midian</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people, the Hebrews, and he saw how hard they were forced to work. During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>After looking in all directions to make sure no one was watching, Moses killed the Egyptian and hid the body in the sand.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The next day, when Moses went out to visit his people again, he saw two Hebrew men fighting. “Why are you beating up your friend?” Moses said to the one who had started the fight.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The man replied, “Who appointed you to be our prince and judge? Are you going to kill me as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?”</p><p class="reg">Then Moses was afraid, thinking, “Everyone knows what I did.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And sure enough, Pharaoh heard what had happened, and he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian.</p><p class="reg">When Moses arrived in Midian, he sat down beside a well. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters who came as usual to draw water and fill the water troughs for their father’s flocks. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But some other shepherds came and chased them away. So Moses jumped up and rescued the girls from the shepherds. Then he drew water for their flocks.</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, “Why are you back so soon today?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they answered. “And then he drew water for us and watered our flocks.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“Then where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave him there? Invite him to come and eat with us.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Moses accepted the invitation, and he settled there with him. In time, Reuel gave Moses his daughter Zipporah to be his wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Later she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> for he explained, “I have been 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>Years passed, and the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites continued to groan under their burden of slavery. They cried out for help, and their cry rose 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 promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He looked down on the people of Israel and knew it was time to act.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="it">Moses</span><span class="ft"> sounds like a Hebrew term that means “to lift out.”</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">2:22 </span><span class="it">Gershom</span><span class="ft"> sounds like a Hebrew term that means “a foreigner there.”</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">2:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">and acknowledged his obligation to help them.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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