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Pharaoh’s daughter instructed her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I’ll pay you a salary.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 After the child had grown older,[a] she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,[b] because she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

Moses Kills an Egyptian

11 Years later, after[c] Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people,[d] and took notice of their heavy burdens. He saw an Egyptian beating up a Hebrew, one of his own people.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:10 The Heb. lacks older
  2. Exodus 2:10 The Heb. name Moses sounds like the Heb. verb draw out
  3. Exodus 2:11 Lit. It happened in those days that
  4. Exodus 2:11 Lit. brothers
  5. Exodus 2:11 Lit. brothers