1有一個利未族人跟他同族的女子結婚。2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。3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。4嬰兒的姐姐遠遠地站著，要看看她的弟弟究竟會怎樣。5這時，法老的女兒來到河邊沐浴，宮女們在河邊行走。公主發現了蘆葦叢中的籃子，便吩咐一個婢女去把它取來。6公主打開一看，原來是一個男嬰。公主看見孩子在哭，就可憐他，說：「他是希伯來人的孩子。」7嬰兒的姐姐對公主說：「我去找一個希伯來婦女當奶媽，為你哺養他好嗎？」8公主回答說：「好！」那女孩就跑去把嬰孩的母親帶來。9公主對那婦女說：「你把孩子抱去，替我哺養他，我會給你工錢。」她便把孩子抱去哺養。10孩子漸漸長大，她便把他帶到公主那裡，孩子就做了公主的兒子。公主給孩子取名叫摩西，意思是「我把他從水中拉了上來」。11後來，摩西長大了，他去看望做苦工的希伯來同胞，看見一個埃及人在毆打他的一個希伯來同胞。12他左右觀望，見四下無人，便下手殺了那埃及人，把屍體埋藏在沙地裡。13第二天，他又出去，看見兩個希伯來人在打架，便過去對理虧的人說：「你為什麼打自己的同胞呢？」14那人說：「你以為你是誰啊？誰立你做我們的首領和審判官？難道你要殺我，像殺那個埃及人一樣嗎？」摩西聽了，害怕起來，心想：「我做的事一定被人知道了。」15法老聽說這件事後，便想殺死摩西。摩西為了躲避法老，就逃到米甸居住。一天他坐在一口井旁，16米甸祭司的七個女兒來打水，要把水倒進槽裡飲她們父親的羊。17這時，來了另外一群牧人要把她們趕走。摩西便起來幫助她們，打水飲她們的羊群。18她們回到父親流珥*那裡，父親問她們：「你們今天怎麼這麼快就回來了？」19她們答道：「有一個埃及人救我們免遭牧人的欺負，還幫我們打水飲羊群。」20他又問女兒們：「現在那人在哪裡？你們怎麼可以丟下他不管呢？去請他來吃點東西。」21後來，摩西同意住在那人家裡。那人把女兒西坡拉許配給他。22後來，西坡拉生了一個兒子，摩西給他取名叫革舜，意思是「我成了在異鄉寄居的人」。23過了多年，埃及王死了。以色列人受盡奴役，就哀歎呼求，聲音傳到上帝那裡。24上帝聽見他們的哀聲，顧念從前跟亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各所立的約，25就垂顧他們，體恤他們。
English Standard Version
The Birth of Moses
1Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman.2The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.3When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes* and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.4And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.5Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it.6When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”8And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.9And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.10When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”*
Moses Flees to Midian
11One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.*12He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.13When 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?”14He answered, “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.”15When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.17The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock.18When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?”19They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.”20He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”21And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.22She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner* in a foreign land.”
God Hears Israel’s Groaning
23During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.25God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
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