And when she could not longerhide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it withslime and withpitch, and put the childtherein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’sbrink.
And the daughter of Pharaohcamedown to washherself at the river; and her maidenswalkedalong by the river’sside; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babewept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’children.
And the childgrew, and she brought him untoPharaoh’sdaughter, and he became her son. And she called his nameMoses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
And it came to pass in thosedays, whenMoses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on theirburdens: and he spied an Egyptiansmiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrewsstrovetogether: and he said to him that did the wrong, Whereforesmitestthou thy fellow?
And he said, Who madethee a prince and a judgeover us? intendestthou to kill me, as thoukilledst the Egyptian? And Mosesfeared, and said, Surelythisthing is known.
Now whenPharaohheardthisthing, he sought to slayMoses. But Mosesfledfrom the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egyptdied: and the children of Israelsighed by reason of the bondage, and theycried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.