Exodus 2:10-19

English Standard Version

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] 12} He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he ^(E)struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. ¹³ When ^(F)he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?” ¹⁴ He answered, ^(G)“Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.” ¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But ^(H)Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by ^(I)a well.

¹⁶ Now the ^(J)priest of Midian had seven daughters, and ^(K)they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. ¹⁷ The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and ^(L)watered their flock. ¹⁸ When they came home to their father ^(M)Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?” ¹⁹ They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and ^(N)watered the flock.”