Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Exodus:
Chapter 2
1. And there
went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
2. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he
was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
3. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of
bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child
therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
4. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
5. And the daughter of Phar-aoh came down to wash herself at the river;
and her maidens and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her
maid to fetch it.
6. And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe
wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the
Hebrew's children.
7. Then said his sister to Phar-aoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to
thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
8. And Phar-aoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and
called the child's mother.
9. And Phar-aoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and
nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman
took the child, and nursed it.
10. And the child grew, and she brought him unto Phar-aoh's daughter,
and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she
said, Because I drew him out of the water.
11. And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he
went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an
Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
12. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was
no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
13. And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews
strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore
smitest thou thy fellow?
14. And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest
thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and
said, Surely this thing is known.
15. Now when Phar-aoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.
But Moses fled from the face of Phar-aoh, and dwelt in the land of
Midian: and he sat down by a well.
16. Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew
water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
17. And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and
helped them, and watered their flock.
18. And when they came to Reu-el their father, he said, How is it that
ye are come so soon today?
19. And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the
shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
20. And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye
have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
21. And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zip-po-rah
his daughter.
22. And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said,
I have been a stranger in a strange land.
23. And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died:
and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they
cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of their bondage.
24. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with
Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto
them.
Jan. 21 Daily reading schedule.. go to chapter 3
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