The Birth of Moses

Now a man of the tribe of Levi(A) married a Levite woman,(B) and 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) But 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:3 The Hebrew can also mean ark, as in Gen. 6:14.

摩西出生

有一個利未族人跟他同族的女子結婚。 那女子懷孕,生了一個男嬰。她看見孩子可愛,就把他藏了三個月。 後來無法再藏下去,她就拿來一個蒲草籃子,外面塗上防水的瀝青和柏油,然後把嬰兒放在裡面,又把籃子放在尼羅河邊的蘆葦叢中。

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And there went 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 him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

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