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ExodeChapitre 2

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Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi.
When she could hide him no longer, she got a basket of papyrus, coated it with tar and pitch, laid the child in it, and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
Then Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe in the Nile while her attendants walked along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to fetch it.
When she opened it, she saw the child—a baby boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, "This is one of the Hebrew children."
Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and find you a Hebrew woman to nurse the child for you?"
"Yes, go," said Pharaoh's daughter. So the girl went and called the child's mother.
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 child and nursed him.
When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, "Because I drew him out of the water." [Footnote: The name Moses sounds like the Hebrew word meaning "to draw out."]
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and saw their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian down and hid him in the sand.
The next day he went out and found two Hebrews fighting. He said to the one in the wrong, "Why are you beating your neighbor?"
The man answered, "Who made you ruler and judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and thought, "So the thing is known."
When Pharaoh heard of it, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down by a well.
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.
When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses got up, came to their rescue, and watered their flock.
When they returned to their father Reuel, he asked, "Why have you come back so early today?"
They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock."
"Where is he?" their father asked. "Why did you leave him behind? Invite him to have something to eat."
Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage.
She gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land." [Footnote: The name Gershom sounds like the Hebrew words for "a stranger there."]
A long time passed, and the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their bondage and cried out, and their cry for help rose up to God from their bondage.
God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
God saw the Israelites, and God took notice of them.
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