The Birth of Moses

2 Now a man from ^(A)the house of Levi went and ^[a]married a daughter of Levi. ² And the woman conceived and gave birth to a son; and when she saw ^[b]that he was ^[c](B)beautiful, she hid him for three months. ³ But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a ^(C)papyrus ^[d]basket and covered it with tar and pitch. Then she put the child in it and set it among the ^(D)reeds by the bank of the Nile. ^4 (E)And his sister stood at a distance to ^[e]find out what would ^[f]happen to him.

⁵ Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down ^(F)to bathe at the Nile, with her female attendants walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the ^[g]basket among the reeds and sent her slave woman, and she brought it to her. ⁶ When she opened it, she ^[h]saw the child, and behold, the boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.” ⁷ Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a woman for you who is nursing from the Hebrew women, so that she may nurse the child for you?” ⁸ Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go ahead.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. ⁹ Then 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 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and ^(G)he became her son. And she named him ^[i]Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

¹¹ Now it came about in those days, ^(H)when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his ^[j]fellow Hebrews and looked at their ^[k](I)hard labors; and ^(J)he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his ^[l]fellow Hebrews. ¹² So he ^[m]looked this way and that, and when he saw that there was no one around, he ^(K)struck and killed the Egyptian, and hid ^[n]his body in the sand. ¹³ Now he went out ^(L)the next day, and behold, two Hebrews were ^[o]fighting with each other; and he said to the ^[p]offender, “Why are you striking your companion?” ¹⁴ But he said, “^(M)Who made you a ^[q]ruler and a judge over us? Do you ^[r]intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and said, “Surely the matter has become known!”

Moses Escapes to Midian

¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But ^(N)Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and ^[s]settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down ^(O)by a well.

¹⁶ Now ^(P)the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and ^(Q)they came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. ¹⁷ Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but ^(R)Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock. ¹⁸ When they came to their father ^(S)Reuel, he said, “Why have you come back so soon today?” ¹⁹ They said, “An Egyptian saved us from ^[t]the shepherds, and what is more, he even drew water for us and watered the flock.” ²⁰ So he said to his daughters, “Where is he then? Why is it that you have left the man behind? Invite him ^[u]to have something to eat.” ²¹ And ^(T)Moses was willing to live with the man. And he gave his daughter ^(U)Zipporah to Moses. ²² Then she gave birth to ^(V)a son, and he named him ^[v]Gershom, for he said, “I have been ^(W)a stranger in a foreign land.”

²³ Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel ^(X)groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and ^(Y)their cry for help because of their bondage ascended to God. ²⁴ So ^(Z)God heard their groaning; and God remembered ^(AA)His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ²⁵ And ^(AB)God saw the sons of Israel, and God ^[w]took notice of them.

²⁵ “When you father children and have ^[a]grandchildren, and you grow old in the land, and you ^(A)act corruptly, and ^(B)make ^[b]an idol in the form of anything, and ^(C)do what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger, ²⁶ I ^(D)call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that you will ^(E)certainly perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to take possession of it. You will not ^[c]live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed. ²⁷ The Lord will ^(F)scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you. ^28 (G)There you will serve gods, the work of human hands, ^(H)wood and stone, ^(I)which neither see nor hear, nor eat nor smell anything. ^29 (J)But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him ^(K)with all your heart and all your soul. ³⁰ When you ^(L)are in distress and all these things happen to you, ^(M)in the latter days ^(N)you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice. ³¹ For the Lord your God is a ^(O)compassionate God; ^(P)He will not abandon you nor ^(Q)destroy you, nor ^(R)forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.

³² “Indeed, ^(S)ask now about the earlier days that were ^[d]before your time, since the ^(T)day that God created ^[e]mankind on the earth, and inquire ^(U)from one end of the heavens to the other. ^(V)Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it? ^33 (W)Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived? ^34 (X)Or has a god ventured to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation ^(Y)by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, ^(Z)by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, ^[f]just as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? ³⁵ You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord, He is God; ^(AA)there is no other besides Him. ^36 (AB)Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice ^(AC)to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. ^37 (AD)Because He loved your fathers, He chose ^[g]their descendants after them. And He ^[h](AE)personally brought you from Egypt by His great power, ³⁸ driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and ^(AF)to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is today. ³⁹ Therefore know today, and take it to your heart, that ^(AG)the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other. ^40 (AH)So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am ^[i]giving you today, so that ^(AI)it may go well for you and for your children after you, and ^(AJ)that you may ^[j]live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Jesus Appears at the Sea of Galilee

21 After these things Jesus ^[a](A)revealed Himself ^(B)again to the disciples at the ^(C)Sea of Tiberias, and He revealed Himself in this way: ² Simon Peter, ^(D)Thomas who was called ^[b]Didymus, ^(E)Nathanael of ^(F)Cana in Galilee, ^(G)the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together. ³ Simon Peter *said to them, “I am going fishing.” They *said to him, “We are also coming with you.” They went out and got into the boat; and ^(H)that night they caught nothing.

⁴ But when the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not ^(I)know that it was Jesus. ⁵ So Jesus *said to them, “Children, ^(J)you do not have any fish to eat, do you?” They answered Him, “No.” ⁶ And He said to them, “^(K)Cast the net on the right-hand side of the boat, and you will find the fish.” So they cast it, and then they were not able to haul it in because of the great quantity of fish. ^7 (L)Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved *said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he was stripped for work), and threw himself into the sea. ⁸ But the other disciples came in the little boat, for they were not far from the land, but about ^[c]two hundred cubits away, dragging the net full of fish.

⁹ So when they got out on the land, they *saw a charcoal ^(M)fire already ^[d]made and ^(N)fish placed on it, and bread. ¹⁰ Jesus *said to them, “Bring some of the ^(O)fish which you have now caught.” ¹¹ So Simon Peter went up and hauled the net to land, full of large fish, 153; and although there were so many, the net was not torn.

Jesus Provides

¹² Jesus *said to them, “Come and have ^(P)breakfast.” None of the disciples ventured to inquire of Him, “Who are You?” knowing that it was the Lord. ¹³ Jesus *came and *took ^(Q)the bread and *gave it to them, and the ^(R)fish likewise. ¹⁴ This was now the ^(S)third time that Jesus revealed Himself to the disciples, after He was raised from the dead.

Satan Bound

20 Then I saw ^(A)an angel coming down from heaven, holding the ^(B)key of the abyss and a great chain ^[a]in his hand. ² And he took hold of the ^(C)dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and ^(D)bound him for a thousand years; ³ and he threw him into the ^(E)abyss and shut it and ^(F)sealed it over him, so that he would ^(G)not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

⁴ Then I saw ^(H)thrones, and ^(I)they sat on them, and ^(J)judgment was given to them. And I saw ^(K)the souls of those who had been beheaded because of ^[b]their ^(L)testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not ^(M)worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the ^(N)mark on their foreheads and on their hands; and they ^(O)came to life and ^(P)reigned with Christ for a thousand years. ⁵ The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. ^(Q)This is the first resurrection. ^6 (R)Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the ^(S)second death has no power, but they will be ^(T)priests of God and of Christ, and will ^(U)reign with Him for a thousand years.

Satan Freed and Doomed

⁷ When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be ^(V)released from his prison, ⁸ and will come out to ^(W)deceive the nations which are at the ^(X)four corners of the earth, ^(Y)Gog and Magog, to ^(Z)gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the ^(AA)sand of the ^[c]seashore. ⁹ And they ^(AB)came up on the ^[d]broad plain of the earth and surrounded the ^(AC)camp of the ^[e]saints and the ^(AD)beloved city, and ^(AE)fire came down from heaven and devoured them. ¹⁰ And ^(AF)the devil who ^(AG)deceived them was thrown into the ^(AH)lake of fire and ^[f]brimstone, where the ^(AI)beast and the ^(AJ)false prophet are also; and they will be ^(AK)tormented day and night forever and ever.

Judgment at the Throne of God

¹¹ Then I saw a great white ^(AL)throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose ^[g]presence ^(AM)earth and heaven fled, and ^(AN)no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, the ^(AO)great and the small, standing before the throne, and ^[h](AP)books were opened; and another ^[i]book was opened, which is ^(AQ)the book of life; and the dead ^(AR)were judged from the things which were written in the ^[j]books, ^(AS)according to their deeds. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and ^(AT)Death and Hades ^(AU)gave up the dead who were in them; and they were judged, each one of them ^(AV)according to their deeds. ¹⁴ Then ^(AW)Death and Hades were thrown into ^(AX)the lake of fire. This is the ^(AY)second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if ^[k]anyone’s name was not found written in ^(AZ)the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.