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Exodus 2:9-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Exodus 2:9-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed it. 10 When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,[a] “because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”(A)
Moses Flees to Midian
11 One day after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.(B)
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- 2.10 In Heb Moses resembles the word for drew
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