¹ Нјкто изъ племени Левіина пошелъ и взялъ Левитянку.

² Жена зачала и родила еына, и видя, что онъ прекрасенъ, скрывала его три мјсяца.

³ Но не могши долје скрывать его, взяла корзинку изъ тростника, и осмолила ее битуменомъ и смолою: и положила въ нее младенца, поставила ее въ тростникј у берега рјки.

⁴ А сестра его стала вдали, дабы узнать, что съ нимъ будетъ.

⁵ И вышла дочь Фараонова на рјку мыться; а прислужницы ея ходили по берегу рјки. Она увидјла корзинку среди тростника и послала рабыню свою взять ее.

⁶ Открыла, и увидјла младенца; и вотъ, дитя плачетъ, и сжалилась надъ нимъ, и свазала: это изъ Еврейскихъ дјтей.

⁷ Тогда сестра его сказала дочери Фараоновой: не сходить ли мнј, и не позвать ли къ тебј кормилицу изъ Евреянокъ, чтобъ она вскормила тебј сего младенца.

⁸ Дочь Фараонова сказала ей: сходи. Дјвица пошла и призвала мать младенца.

⁹ Дочь Фараонова сказала ей: возми младенца сего и вскорми его мнј; я дамъ тебј плату. Женщина взяла младенца и кормила его.

¹⁰ Когда младенецъ выросъ, она привела его къ дочери Фараоновой, и онъ былъ у ней вмјсто сына, и нарекла имя ему: Моисей, потому что, говорила она, я изъ воды вынула его.

¹¹ Въ то время, какъ Моисей уже выросъ, случилось, что онъ вышелъ къ братьямъ своимъ, и увидјлъ тяжкія работы ихъ. И увидјлъ, что Египтянинъ бьетъ одного Еврея изъ братьевъ его.

¹² Посмотрјвъ туда и сюда, и видя, что нјтъ никого, онъ убилъ Египтянина, и скрылъ его въ пескј.

¹³ Онъ вышелъ на другой день, и вотъ, два Еврея дерутся. Онъ сказалъ обижающему: зачјмъ ты бьешь ближняго твоего?

¹⁴ А тотъ сказалъ: кто поставилъ тебя начальникомъ и судьею надъ нами? не думаешь ли убить меня, какъ убилъ Египтянина? Моисей испугался и сказалъ: вјрно, узнали объ этомъ дјлј.

¹⁵ И услышалъ Фараонъ объ этомъ дјлј, и искалъ убить Моисея: но Моисей убјжалъ отъ Фараона, остановился въ землј Мадіамской, и сјлъ у колодезя.

¹⁶ У священника Мадіамскаго было семь дочерей; онј пришли почерпнуть воды, и наполнили корыта, чтобы напоить овецъ отца своего.

¹⁷ И пришли пастухи, и отгоняли ихъ. Тогда всталъ Моисей, и защитилъ ихъ, и напоилъ овецъ ихъ.

¹⁸ Когда онј пришли къ Реуэлу отцу своему, то онъ сказалъ: что вы такъ скоро сегодня пришли?

¹⁹ Онј сказали: какой-то Египтянинъ защитилъ насъ отъ пастуховъ; и даже начерпалъ намъ воды, и напоилъ овецъ.

²⁰ Онъ сказалъ дочерямъ своимъ: гдј же онъ? зачјмъ вы его оставили? позовите его јсть хлјба.

²¹ Моисею понравилось жить у сего человјка, и онъ выдалъ за Моисея дочь свою Циппору.

²² Она родила сына, и нарекъ Моисей имя ему: Гирсамъ, потому что, говорилъ онъ, я пришлецъ въ чужой землј.

²³ Спустя долгое время, умеръ царь Египетскій. Между тјмъ сыны Израилевы стенали отъ работы и вопіяли; и возшелъ къ Богу вопль ихъ отъ сей работы.

²⁴ И Богъ услышалъ стенаніе ихъ, и вспомнилъ Богъ завјтъ Свой съ Авраамомъ, Исаакомъ и Іаковомъ:

²⁵ и увидјлъ Богъ сыновъ Израилевыхъ, и узналъ Богъ.

¹ A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.

² The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

³ When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.

⁴ His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.

⁵ Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.

⁶ She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

⁷ Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"

⁸ Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The maiden went and called the child's mother.

⁹ Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it.

¹⁰ The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

¹¹ It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

¹² He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

¹³ He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"

¹⁴ He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."

¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. 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 helped them, and watered their flock.

¹⁸ When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"

¹⁹ They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."

²⁰ He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

²¹ Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

²² She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

²³ It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

²⁴ God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

²⁵ God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.