Book 02 : TORAH - SHEMOT (EXODUS) - Chapter 002
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And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife
a daughter of Levi
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And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw
him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months
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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 she put the child
therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink
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And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done
to him.
river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among
the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it
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And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a
boy that wept. And she had compassion on him, and said: 'This is one of the
Hebrews' children.
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Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter: 'Shall I go and
call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
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And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: 'Go.' And the maiden
went and called the child's mother
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And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her: 'Take this child
away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.' And the woman took
the child, and nursed it
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And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's
daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said:
'Because I drew him out of the water.'
in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and
looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his
brethren
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And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that
there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand
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And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of
the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong:
'Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
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And he said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared,
and said: 'Surely the thing is known.
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Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay
Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian;
and he sat down by a well.
seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water
their father's flock
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And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses
stood up and helped them, and watered their flock
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And when they came to Reuel their father, he said: 'How is
it that ye are come so soon to-day?
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And they said: 'An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand
of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.
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And he said unto his daughters: 'And where is he? Why is
it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
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And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave
Moses Zipporah his daughter
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And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he
said: 'I have been a stranger in a strange land.'
came to pass in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died; and
the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and
their cry came up unto G-d by reason of the bondage
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And G-d heard their groaning, and G-d remembered His
covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob
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And G-d saw the children of Israel, and G-d took
cognizance of them
Book 02 : TORAH - SHEMOT (EXODUS) - Chapter 002
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