Exodus 2

New International Version

The Birth of Moses

2 Now a man of the tribe of Levi^(A) married a Levite woman,^(B) ²and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine^(C) child, she hid him for three months.^(D) ³But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus^(E) basket^[a] for him and coated it with tar and pitch.^(F) Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds^(G) along the bank of the Nile. ⁴His sister^(H) stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

⁵Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank.^(I) She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. ⁶She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.

⁷Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”

⁸“Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. ⁹Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. ¹⁰When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named^(J) him Moses,^[b] saying, “I drew^(K) him out of the water.”

Moses Flees to Midian

¹¹One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people^(L) were and watched them at their hard labor.^(M) He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. ¹²Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. ¹³The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”^(N)

¹⁴The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us?^(O) Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”

¹⁵When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill^(P) Moses, but Moses fled^(Q) from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian,^(R) where he sat down by a well. ¹⁶Now a priest of Midian^(S) had seven daughters, and they came to draw water^(T) and fill the troughs^(U) to water their father’s flock. ¹⁷Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue^(V) and watered their flock.^(W)

¹⁸When the girls returned to Reuel^(X) their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

¹⁹They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

²⁰“And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”^(Y)

²¹Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah^(Z) to Moses in marriage. ²²Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,^[c]^(AA) saying, “I have become a foreigner^(AB) in a foreign land.”

²³During that long period,^(AC) the king of Egypt died.^(AD) The Israelites groaned in their slavery^(AE) and cried out, and their cry^(AF) for help because of their slavery went up to God. ²⁴God heard their groaning and he remembered^(AG) his covenant^(AH) with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. ²⁵So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned^(AI) about them.

Notas al pie

Exodus 2:3 The Hebrew can also mean ark, as in Gen. 6:14.
Exodus 2:10 Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out.
Exodus 2:22 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for a foreigner there.

Job 19

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Job

19 Then Job replied:

²“How long will you torment^(A) me
    and crush^(B) me with words?
³Ten times^(C) now you have reproached^(D) me;
    shamelessly you attack me.
⁴If it is true that I have gone astray,
    my error^(E) remains my concern alone.
⁵If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me^(F)
    and use my humiliation against me,
⁶then know that God has wronged me^(G)
    and drawn his net^(H) around me.^(I)

⁷“Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response;^(J)
    though I call for help,^(K) there is no justice.^(L)
⁸He has blocked my way so I cannot pass;^(M)
    he has shrouded my paths in darkness.^(N)
⁹He has stripped^(O) me of my honor^(P)
    and removed the crown from my head.^(Q)
¹⁰He tears me down^(R) on every side till I am gone;
    he uproots my hope^(S) like a tree.^(T)
¹¹His anger^(U) burns against me;
    he counts me among his enemies.^(V)
¹²His troops advance in force;^(W)
    they build a siege ramp^(X) against me
    and encamp around my tent.^(Y)

¹³“He has alienated my family^(Z) from me;
    my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.^(AA)
¹⁴My relatives have gone away;
    my closest friends^(AB) have forgotten me.
¹⁵My guests^(AC) and my female servants^(AD) count me a foreigner;
    they look on me as on a stranger.
¹⁶I summon my servant, but he does not answer,
    though I beg him with my own mouth.
¹⁷My breath is offensive to my wife;
    I am loathsome^(AE) to my own family.
¹⁸Even the little boys^(AF) scorn me;
    when I appear, they ridicule me.^(AG)
¹⁹All my intimate friends^(AH) detest me;^(AI)
    those I love have turned against me.^(AJ)
²⁰I am nothing but skin and bones;^(AK)
    I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.^[a]

²¹“Have pity on me, my friends,^(AL) have pity,
for the hand of God has struck^(AM) me.
²²Why do you pursue^(AN) me as God does?^(AO)
Will you never get enough of my flesh?^(AP)

²³“Oh, that my words were recorded,
    that they were written on a scroll,^(AQ)
²⁴that they were inscribed with an iron tool^(AR) on^[b] lead,
    or engraved in rock forever!^(AS)
²⁵I know that my redeemer^[c]^(AT) lives,^(AU)
    and that in the end he will stand on the earth.^[d]
²⁶And after my skin has been destroyed,
    yet^[e] in^[f] my flesh I will see God;^(AV)
²⁷I myself will see him
    with my own eyes^(AW)—I, and not another.
    How my heart yearns^(AX) within me!

²⁸“If you say, ‘How we will hound^(AY) him,
    since the root of the trouble lies in him,^[g]’
²⁹you should fear the sword yourselves;
    for wrath will bring punishment by the sword,^(AZ)
    and then you will know that there is judgment.^[h]”^(BA)

Notas al pie

Job 19:20 Or only by my gums
Job 19:24 Or and
Job 19:25 Or vindicator
Job 19:25 Or on my grave
Job 19:26 Or And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then
Job 19:26 Or destroyed, / apart from
Job 19:28 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts me
Job 19:29 Or sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty

Psalm 50

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Psalm 50

A psalm of Asaph.

¹The Mighty One, God, the Lord,^(A)
    speaks and summons the earth
    from the rising of the sun to where it sets.^(B)
²From Zion,^(C) perfect in beauty,^(D)
    God shines forth.^(E)
³Our God comes^(F)
    and will not be silent;^(G)
a fire devours^(H) before him,^(I)
    and around him a tempest^(J) rages.
⁴He summons the heavens above,
    and the earth,^(K) that he may judge his people:^(L)
⁵“Gather to me this consecrated people,^(M)
    who made a covenant^(N) with me by sacrifice.”
⁶And the heavens proclaim^(O) his righteousness,
    for he is a God of justice.^[a]^[b]^(P)

⁷“Listen, my people, and I will speak;
    I will testify^(Q) against you, Israel:
    I am God, your God.^(R)
⁸I bring no charges^(S) against you concerning your sacrifices
    or concerning your burnt offerings,^(T) which are ever before me.
⁹I have no need of a bull^(U) from your stall
    or of goats^(V) from your pens,^(W)
¹⁰for every animal of the forest^(X) is mine,
    and the cattle on a thousand hills.^(Y)
¹¹I know every bird^(Z) in the mountains,
    and the insects in the fields^(AA) are mine.
¹²If I were hungry I would not tell you,
    for the world^(AB) is mine, and all that is in it.^(AC)
¹³Do I eat the flesh of bulls
    or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴“Sacrifice thank offerings^(AD) to God,
fulfill your vows^(AE) to the Most High,^(AF)
¹⁵and call^(AG) on me in the day of trouble;^(AH)
I will deliver^(AI) you, and you will honor^(AJ) me.”

¹⁶But to the wicked person, God says:

“What right have you to recite my laws
    or take my covenant^(AK) on your lips?^(AL)
¹⁷You hate^(AM) my instruction
    and cast my words behind^(AN) you.
¹⁸When you see a thief, you join^(AO) with him;
    you throw in your lot with adulterers.^(AP)
¹⁹You use your mouth for evil
    and harness your tongue to deceit.^(AQ)
²⁰You sit and testify against your brother^(AR)
    and slander your own mother’s son.
²¹When you did these things and I kept silent,^(AS)
    you thought I was exactly^[c] like you.
But I now arraign^(AT) you
    and set my accusations^(AU) before you.

²²“Consider this, you who forget God,^(AV)
or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:^(AW)
²³Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me,
and to the blameless^[d] I will show my salvation.^(AX)”

Notas al pie

Psalm 50:6 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text for God himself is judge
Psalm 50:6 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.
Psalm 50:21 Or thought the ‘I am’ was
Psalm 50:23 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; the meaning of the Masoretic Text for this phrase is uncertain.