10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,[a] “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

Moses in Midian

11 Years later,[b] after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people[c] and observed their forced labor.(A) He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:10 The name Moses sounds like “drawing out” in Hb and “born” in Egyptian.
  2. 2:11 Lit And it was in those days
  3. 2:11 Lit his brothers

10 Better a day in your courts
than a thousand anywhere else.
I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God
than live in the tents of wicked people.(A)

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