2 Moses is born and cast into the flags. 5 He is taken up of Pharaoh’s daughter and kept. 12 He killeth the Egyptian. 15 He fleeth and marrieth a wife. 23 The Israelites cry unto the Lord.

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

And the woman conceived and bare a son: and when she saw that he was fair, (A)she hid him three months.

But when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark made of reed, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and [b]laid the child therein, and put it among the bulrushes by the river’s brink.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:1 This Levite was called Amram, who married Jochebed, Exod. 6:20.
  2. Exodus 2:3 Committing him to the providence of God, whom she could not keep from the rage of the tyrant.

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