出埃及記 2
1 有肋末家族的一個男子娶了肋末家族的一個女人為妻。
A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.
2 這女人懷孕生了一個兒子，見他俊美，就把他藏了三個月。
The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
3 以後不能再藏了，就拿了一個蒲草筐子，塗上瀝青和石漆，把孩子放在裏面，將筐放在尼羅河邊的蘆葦叢中。
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 孩子的姐姐遠遠的站著，想知道孩子究竟怎樣。
His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
5 當時法朗的一個公主下到尼羅河邊洗澡，使女們在河邊上徘徊。公主發現蘆葦叢中那個筐子，就吩咐自己的使女將筐子取來。
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 servant to get it.
6 她打開一看，見有一個孩子正在哭涕，就動了可憐他的心說：「這必是一個希伯來人的孩子。」
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 孩子的姐姐就對法朗的公主說：「你願意我從希伯來婦女中給你請一個奶媽，為你乳養這個孩子嗎﹖」
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 法兩的公主回答說：「你去罷! 」少女便去叫了孩子的母親來。
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The young woman went and called the child’s mother.
9 法朗的公主對她說：「你將這孩子抱去，為我乳養他，我必給你工錢。」那婦人就接過去，乳養這個孩子。
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 孩子長大了，那婦人就把他帶到公主那裏；公主遂收他作自己的兒子，給他起名叫梅瑟，說：「因為我從水裏拉出了他。」梅瑟逃往米德楊
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 過了許久梅瑟已經長大，有一次出去探望自己的同胞，看見他們作苦工，又見一個埃及人打他的一個同胞希伯來人；
In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
12 他向四面一望，見沒有人，便將那埃及人打死，將他埋在沙土中。
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 第二天他又出去，見兩個希伯來人打架，就對那無理的一方說：「你為什麼打你同族的人﹖」
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 那人回答說：「誰立了你作我們的首領和判官﹖難到你想殺我，像殺那埃及仁一樣嗎﹖」梅瑟就害怕了，心裏想：「那事一定叫人知道了! 」
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 法朗聽說這事，就想殺死梅瑟；而梅瑟卻離開法朗逃走，去了米德楊地，坐在井邊。
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 米德楊的司祭有七個女兒，她們來打水，灌滿水槽，要飲父親的羊群。
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
17 別的牧童來了，趕走了她們；，梅瑟便起來保護了她們，也飲了她們的羊。
The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18 她們回到父親勒烏爾那裏，父親問她們說：「你們今天為什麼回來的這麼快﹖」
When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
19 她們回答說：「有一個埃及人救我們擺脫了牧童的手，還給我們打水飲了羊群。」
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 他對女兒們說：「他在那裏﹖你們為什麼撇下他﹖去請他來吃飯! 」
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 於是梅瑟決定住在那人那裏，那人將自己的女兒漆頗辣給了梅瑟為妻。
Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
22 她生了一個兒子，梅瑟給他起名叫革爾熊，因為他說：「我在外方作了旅客。」
She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
23 過了很久，埃及王死了。那時以色列子民由於勞苦工作，都嘆息唉號：他們因勞役所發出的求救聲，升到天主面前。
In the course of those many days, 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 天主聽見了他們的哀號，就記起了他與亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯所立的盟約。
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 天主遂眷顧了以色列子民，特別垂念她們。
God saw the children of Israel, and God understood.
