Exodus 2:1-10

The Birth of Moses

Exodus 2:1-10

The Birth of Moses

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After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of his own kindred.
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And she conceived, and bore a son: and seeing him a goodly child, hid him three months.
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And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,
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His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.
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And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought,
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She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.
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And the child's sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?
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She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.
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And Pharao's daughter said to her: Take this child, and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao's daughter.
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And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.
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Where else Scripture says this.

  • Hebrews 11:23

    By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents: because they saw he was a comely babe, and they feared not the king's edict.
    from verse 2

  • Acts 7:20

    At the same time was Moses born: and he was acceptable to God. Who was nourished three months in his father's house.
    from verse 2

  • Numbers 26:59

    Who had to wife Jochabed the daughter of Levi, who was born to him in Egypt. She bore to her husband Amram sons, Aaron and Moses, and Mary their sister.
    from verse 1

  • Acts 7:21

    And when he was exposed, Pharao's daughter took him up and nourished him for her own son.
    from verse 5

  • 1 Samuel 1:20

    And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of the Lord.
    from verse 10

  • Acts 7:22

    And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians: and he was mighty in his words and in his deeds.
    from verse 10

  • Genesis 16:11

    And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.
    from verse 10

  • Hebrews 11:24

    By faith Moses, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the son of Pharao's daughter:
    from verse 10

  • Exodus 1:22

    Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.
    from verse 3

  • Exodus 15:20

    So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances.
    from verse 4

  • Psalms 9:9

    And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in justice.
    from verse 5

  • Psalms 12:5

    Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me, will rejoice when I am moved:
    from verse 5
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