Exodus 2

1A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.Cross-references: Ex 6:16 · Num 26:59 · 1Chr 6:1 · 1Chr 23:12

2The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.Cross-references: Ps 112:5 · Acts 7:20 · Heb 11:23

3When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.Cross-references: Gen 6:14 · Gen 11:3 · Gen 14:10 · Ex 1:22 · Isa 18:2 · Isa 19:6 · +3 more

4His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.Cross-references: Ex 15:20 · Num 12:1 · Num 20:1 · Num 26:59 · Mic 6:4

5Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.Cross-references: Ex 7:15 · Ex 8:20 · 1Ki 17:6 · Ps 9:9 · Ps 12:5 · Ps 46:1 · +5 more

6She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”Cross-references: 1Ki 8:50 · Neh 1:11 · Ps 106:46 · Prov 21:1 · Acts 7:21 · 1Pet 3:8

7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”Cross-references: Ex 2:4 · Ex 15:20 · Num 12:1 · Num 26:59

8Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The young woman went and called the child’s mother.Cross-references: Ex 6:20 · Ps 27:10 · Isa 46:3 · Ezek 16:8

9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” The woman took the child, and nursed him.

10The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”Cross-references: Gen 4:25 · Gen 16:11 · Gen 48:5 · 1Sam 1:20 · Matt 1:21 · Acts 7:21 · +3 more

11In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.Cross-references: Ex 1:11 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 5:9 · Ex 5:14 · Isa 58:6 · Matt 11:28 · +3 more

12He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.Cross-references: Acts 7:24

13He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”Cross-references: Acts 7:26 · 1Cor 6:7

14He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”Cross-references: Gen 13:8 · Gen 19:9 · Gen 37:8 · Gen 37:19 · Num 16:3 · Num 16:13 · +9 more

15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.Cross-references: Gen 24:11 · Gen 25:2 · Gen 25:4 · Gen 28:6 · Gen 29:2 · Ex 4:19 · +8 more

16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.Cross-references: Gen 14:18 · Gen 24:11 · Gen 24:14 · Gen 29:6 · Gen 41:45 · Ex 3:1 · +1 more

17The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.Cross-references: Gen 21:25 · Gen 26:15 · Gen 29:10 · Ex 2:12

18When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”Cross-references: Ex 3:1 · Ex 4:18 · Ex 18:1 · Num 10:29 · Num 19:20

19They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”Cross-references: Gen 29:10 · Gen 50:11

20He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”Cross-references: Gen 18:5 · Gen 19:2 · Gen 24:31 · Gen 29:13 · Gen 31:54 · Gen 43:25 · +4 more

21Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.Cross-references: Gen 31:38 · Ex 2:10 · Ex 4:20 · Ex 18:2 · Num 12:1 · Phil 4:11 · +4 more

22She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”Cross-references: Ex 2:10 · Ex 18:3 · Ex 22:21 · 1Chr 16:20 · 1Chr 23:14 · 1Chr 29:15 · +4 more

23In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.Cross-references: Gen 4:10 · Gen 16:11 · Gen 18:20 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 4:19 · Ex 7:7 · +16 more

24God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.Cross-references: Gen 15:14 · Gen 17:7 · Gen 18:18 · Gen 26:3 · Gen 26:24 · Gen 28:12 · +15 more

25God saw the children of Israel, and God understood.Cross-references: Ex 1:8 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 4:31 · 1Sam 1:11 · 2Sam 16:12 · Job 33:27 · +4 more