1Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,[ † ]Exodus 6:16-20Numbers 26:591 Chronicles 23:14 2and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.[ † ]Acts 7:20Hebrews 11:23
3But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.[ † ]Isaiah 18:2Genesis 14:10Genesis 6:14Isaiah 34:9Isaiah 19:6 4And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.[ † ]Exodus 15:20Numbers 26:59
5Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.[ † ]Exodus 7:15Acts 7:21 6When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”
8“Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.
9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.
10When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”[ † ]Acts 7:21
11One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.[ † ]Acts 7:23-24Hebrews 11:24-26 12After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.[ † ]Acts 7:24-25
13The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”[ † ]Acts 7:26-28Proverbs 25:8
14But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”[ † ]Genesis 19:9Acts 7:27-28Judges 6:27Hebrews 11:27
15When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.[ † ]Acts 7:29Hebrews 11:27Exodus 3:1Genesis 24:11Genesis 29:2Exodus 15:27
16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.[ † ]Exodus 3:1Exodus 4:18Exodus 18:12Genesis 24:11-13, 19Genesis 29:6-101 Samuel 9:11Genesis 30:38 17And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.[ † ]Genesis 47:31 Samuel 25:7Genesis 26:19-21Genesis 29:3-10
18When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”[ † ]Numbers 10:29Exodus 3:1Exodus 4:18
19“An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
20“So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”[ † ]Genesis 31:54Genesis 43:25
21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.[ † ]Exodus 4:25Exodus 18:2 22And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”[ † ]Exodus 4:20Exodus 18:3-4Genesis 23:4Leviticus 25:23Acts 7:29Hebrews 11:13-14
23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.[ † ]Acts 7:34Deuteronomy 26:7Exodus 3:7-9James 5:4
24So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.[ † ]Exodus 6:5Acts 7:34Genesis 15:13Genesis 22:16-18Genesis 26:2-5Genesis 28:13-15Psalms 105:8-42Genesis 12:1-3Genesis 15:14Genesis 17:1-14 25God saw the Israelites and took notice.[ † ]Exodus 4:31Luke 1:25Acts 7:34Exodus 3:7