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    Exodus 2

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    Moses begins life as a hidden child and, rather wonderfully, ends up with his own mother hired to nurse him by the princess who rescued him.

    A basket, a princess, and a rather satisfactory arrangementvv. 1–10

    A Levite woman hides her beautiful son for three months, then places him in a tarred basket among the reeds of the Nile, where his sister keeps watch. Pharaoh’s daughter finds him, recognizes him as a Hebrew child, and accepts a suggestion from the child’s sister: a Hebrew woman can nurse him. The woman summoned is the boy’s own mother, who is paid wages to raise the child she had been trying to save. When he grows older, she brings him back, and Pharaoh’s daughter makes him her son, naming him Moses because she drew him out of the water.

    Moses leaves Egypt in a hurryvv. 11–22

    Grown up, Moses sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He looks about carefully, strikes the Egyptian, and hides the body in the sand; by the next day, the deed has acquired a witness and a question about whether Moses has appointed himself ruler and judge. Pharaoh seeks to kill him, so Moses flees to Midian and sits beside a well. There he drives away shepherds who have driven away seven daughters of the priest of Midian, waters their father’s flock, and is invited to eat. He stays, marries Zipporah, and names their son Gershom, for he has become a foreigner in a foreign land.

    The cry risesvv. 23–25

    After a long time, the king of Egypt dies. Israel groans under slavery and cries for deliverance; the cry ascends to God. God hears, remembers his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and sees Israel.

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    1. Exod 2:1Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,

    2. Exod 2:2and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.

    3. Exod 2:3But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket 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.

    4. Exod 2:4And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

    5. Exod 2:5Soon 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.

    6. Exod 2:6When 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.”

    7. Exod 2:7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

    8. Exod 2:8“Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

    9. Exod 2:9Pharaoh’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.

    10. Exod 2:10When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”

    11. Exod 2:11One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

    12. Exod 2:12After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

    13. Exod 2:13The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”

    14. Exod 2:14But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”

    15. Exod 2:15When 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.

    16. Exod 2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.

    17. Exod 2:17And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.

    18. Exod 2:18When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

    19. Exod 2:19“An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

    20. Exod 2:20“So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”

    21. Exod 2:21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

    22. Exod 2:22And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

    23. Exod 2:23After 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.

    24. Exod 2:24So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    25. Exod 2:25God saw the Israelites and took notice.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 2Hebrews 11:23By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict.
    • 2Acts 7:20At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.
    • 24Genesis 26:3Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
    • 1Numbers 26:59and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
    • 24Psalms 105:42For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
    • 24Exodus 6:5Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.
    • 5Acts 7:21When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.
    • 23Genesis 18:20–21Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
    • 24Genesis 15:14–18But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
    • 25Exodus 4:31and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
    • 25Psalms 55:22Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
    • 10Hebrews 11:24By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.
    • 23James 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
    • 24Luke 1:72–73to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,
    • 24Psalms 22:24For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.
    • 10Genesis 16:11The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.

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