Exodus 2
Christian Standard Bible
Moses’s Birth and Adoption
2 Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman.(A) 2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful,[a] she hid him for three months.(B) 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. 4 Then his sister(C) stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.
5 Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds, sent her slave girl, took it, 6 opened it, and saw him, the child—and there he was, a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.”
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a Hebrew woman who is nursing to nurse the boy for you?”
8 “Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother. 9 Then 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 boy and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,[b] “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
Moses in Midian
11 Years later,[c] after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people[d] and observed their forced labor.(D) He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people. 12 Looking all around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand. 13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your neighbor?” [e]
14 “Who made you a commander and judge over us?” the man replied. “Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”
Then Moses became afraid and thought, “What I did is certainly known.”
15 When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian,(E) and sat down by a well.(F)
16 Now the priest of Midian(G) had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 Then some shepherds arrived and drove them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their flock. 18 When they returned to their father Reuel,[f](H) he asked, “Why have you come back so quickly today?”
19 They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
20 “So where is he?” he asked his daughters. “Why then did you leave the man behind? Invite him to eat dinner.”
21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah(I) to Moses in marriage. 22 She gave birth to a son whom he named Gershom,[g] for he said, “I have been a resident alien(J) in a foreign land.”
23 After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, they cried out,(K) and their cry for help because of the difficult labor ascended to God. 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered(L) his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.(M) 25 God saw the Israelites, and God knew.(N)
Exodus 2
King James Version
2 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 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.
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.
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?
8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
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 women took the child, and nursed it.
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.
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 Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, 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 Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
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 Zipporah 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 the 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.
Exodus 2
Ang Salita ng Dios (Tagalog Contemporary Bible)
Ang Kapanganakan ni Moises
2 May isang tao mula sa lahi ni Levi na nakapag-asawa ng isang babae na galing din sa lahi ni Levi. 2 Hindi nagtagal, nagbuntis ang babae at nanganak ng isang lalaki. Nang makita niyang malusog ang sanggol, itinago niya ito sa loob ng tatlong buwan. 3 Pero nang hindi na niya maitago ang sanggol, kumuha siya ng basket na gawa sa halaman na papyrus at pinahiran ng alkitran. Pagkatapos, inilagay niya ang sanggol sa basket at pinalutang sa tubig sa tabi ng matataas na damo sa pampang ng Ilog ng Nilo. 4 Nakatayo naman sa di-kalayuan ang kapatid na babae ng sanggol para tingnan kung ano ang mangyayari rito.
5 Ngayon, lumusong ang anak na babae ng Faraon sa Ilog ng Nilo para maligo. Habang naliligo ang prinsesa,[a] ang mga utusang babae naman niya ay naglalakad-lakad sa pampang. Nakita ng prinsesa ang basket sa matataas na damo kaya ipinakuha niya ito sa isa sa kanyang mga utusan. 6 Binuksan niya ang basket at nakita ang umiiyak na sanggol, kaya naawa siya rito. Sinabi niya, “Isa ito sa mga sanggol ng mga Hebreo.”
7 Pagkatapos, lumapit ang kapatid na babae ng sanggol sa prinsesa[b] at nagtanong, “Gusto nʼyo po bang ikuha ko kayo ng isang babaeng Hebreo na magpapasuso at mag-aalaga sa sanggol para sa inyo?”
8 Sumagot ang prinsesa, “Sige.” Kaya umalis ang kapatid ng sanggol at pinuntahan ang kanilang ina at dinala sa prinsesa. 9 Sinabi ng prinsesa sa ina ng bata, “Dalhin mo ang sanggol na ito at pasusuhin para sa akin. Alagaan mo siya at babayaran kita.” Kaya kinuha niya ang sanggol at inalagaan.
10 Nang lumaki na ang sanggol, dinala siya ng kanyang ina sa prinsesa at itinuring siya ng prinsesa bilang tunay niyang anak. Pinangalanan ng prinsesa ang bata na Moises,[c] dahil sinabi niya, “Kinuha ko siya sa tubig.”
Tumakas si Moises Papuntang Midian
11 Isang araw, nang binata na si Moises, pumunta siya sa mga kadugo niya at nakita niya kung paano sila pinapahirapan. Nakita niya ang isang Egipcio na hinahagupit ang isang Hebreo na kadugo niya. 12 Luminga-linga si Moises sa paligid kung may nakatingin. At nang wala siyang nakita, pinatay niya ang Egipcio at ibinaon ang bangkay sa buhangin.
13 Kinabukasan, bumalik siya at may nakita siyang dalawang Hebreong nag-aaway. Tinanong niya ang may kasalanan, “Bakit mo hinahagupit ang kapwa mo Hebreo?”
14 Sumagot ang lalaki, “Sino ang naglagay sa iyo para maging pinuno at hukom namin? Papatayin mo rin ba ako katulad ng ginawa mo sa Egipcio kahapon?” Natakot si Moises at sinabi sa kanyang sarili, “May nakakaalam pala ng ginawa ko.”
15 Nang malaman ng Faraon ang ginawa ni Moises, tinangka niya itong patayin, pero tumakas si Moises papuntang Midian para roon manirahan. Pagdating niya sa Midian, naupo siya sa gilid ng balon. 16 Ngayon, dumating naman ang pitong anak na babae ng pari ng Midian para umigib at painumoin ang mga alagang hayop ng kanilang ama. 17 May dumating doon na mga pastol at pinapaalis nila ang mga babae at ang kanilang mga hayop, pero tinulungan ni Moises ang mga babaeng anak ng pari at pinainom pa niya ang mga alaga nilang hayop.
18 Pag-uwi ng mga babae sa ama nilang si Reuel,[d] tinanong niya sila, “Bakit parang napaaga ang pag-uwi nʼyo?”
19 Sumagot sila, “May isang Egipcio po na tumulong sa amin laban sa mga pastol. Ipinag-igib niya kami ng tubig at pinainom ang aming mga hayop.”
20 Nagtanong ang kanilang ama, “Nasaan na siya? Bakit ninyo siya iniwan? Tawagin ninyo siya at anyayahang kumain.”
21 Tinanggap ni Moises ang paanyaya, at pumayag siyang doon na tumira sa bahay ni Reuel. Nang magtagal, ipinakasal ni Reuel ang anak niyang si Zipora kay Moises 22 Nagbuntis si Zipora at nanganak ng isang lalaki, at pinangalanan ito ni Moises na Gershom,[e] dahil sinabi niya, “Dayuhan ako sa lupaing ito.”
23 Pagkalipas ng maraming taon, namatay ang hari ng Egipto. Pero patuloy pa rin ang paghihirap ng mga Israelita sa kanilang pagkaalipin. Humingi sila ng tulong at umabot sa Dios ang kanilang hinaing. 24 Narinig ng Dios ang kanilang hinaing, at inalala niya ang kanyang kasunduan kina Abraham, Isaac, at Jacob. 25 Nakita ng Dios ang kalagayan nila at naawa ang Dios sa kanila.
Footnotes
- 2:5 prinsesa: sa literal, anak na babae ng Faraon. Ganito rin sa talatang 7, 8, 9 at 10.
- 2:7 prinsesa: sa literal, anak na babae ng Faraon. Ganito rin sa talatang 10.
- 2:10 Moises: Maaaring ang ibig sabihin, kinuha.
- 2:18 Reuel: Ito ang isa pang pangalan ni Jetro. Tingnan sa 3:1.
- 2:22 Gershom: Maaaring ang ibig sabihin, dayuhan.
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