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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</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/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="/bmc//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="/exodus/">Exodus</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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/exodus/2.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/exodus/2.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/exodus/2.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/exodus/2.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/exodus/2.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/exodus/2.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/exodus/2.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Birth and Adoption of Moses<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../acts/7.htm#20">Acts 7:20–22</a>; <a href ="../hebrews/11.htm#23">Hebrews 11:23</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.” <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> and explained, “I drew him out of the water.” <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">The Rejection and Flight of Moses<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../acts/7.htm#23">Acts 7:23–29</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?” <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us?<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span>” <p class="reg"> Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.” <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock. <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When the daughters returned to their father Reuel,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?” <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.” <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.” <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span> saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.” <A name="24"></a><p class="hdg">God Hears the Cry of the Israelites<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>God saw the Israelites and took notice.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> The Hebrew can also mean <i>ark</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 5; see <a href="../genesis/6.htm#14">Genesis 6:14</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>Moses</i><span class="thin"> </span> sounds like a Hebrew term that means <i>to lift out</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>his brothers</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Cited in <a href="../acts/7.htm#27">Acts 7:27</a> and <a href="../acts/7.htm#35">Acts 7:35</a><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> LXX <i>Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?</i><span class="thin"> </span> Cited in <a href="../acts/7.htm#28">Acts 7:28</a><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <i>Reuel</i><span class="thin"> </span> was also called <i>Jethro</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see <a href="../exodus/3.htm">Exodus 3:1</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <i>Gershom</i><span class="thin"> </span> sounds like the Hebrew for <i>foreigner</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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