Exodus 2:1-10
The Birth and Adoption of Moses

1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took [to wife] a daughter of Levi.

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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.

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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.

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4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

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5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash [herself] at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

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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 Hebrews’ children.

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7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

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8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.

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9 And Pharaoh’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.

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10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

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