And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became (A)her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I (B)drew him out of the water.”[a]

Moses Flees to Midian

11 One day, (C)when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their (D)burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:10 Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out
  2. Exodus 2:11 Hebrew brothers

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