出埃及记 2
1 有一个利未家的人娶了一个利未女子为妻。
It was around this time that a man from the tribe of Levi married a woman, also a Levite.
2 那女人怀孕，生一个儿子，见他俊美，就藏了他三个月，
She became pregnant and had a son. She saw he was a lovely baby, and she hid him for three months.
3 后来不能再藏，就取了一个蒲草箱，抹上石漆和石油，将孩子放在里头，把箱子搁在河边的芦荻中。
But when she couldn't hide him anymore, she got a papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch. Then she put her baby in the basket and placed it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
4 孩子的姊姊远远站着，要知道他究竟怎么样。
His sister waited some distance away, keeping an eye on him.
5 法老的女儿来到河边洗澡，她的使女们在河边行走。她看见箱子在芦荻中，就打发一个婢女拿来。
Then Pharaoh's daughter arrived to bathe in the Nile. Her ladies-in-waiting were walking along the bank of the river. When she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it and bring it to her.
6 她打开箱子，看见那孩子。孩子哭了，她就可怜他，说：“这是希伯来人的一个孩子。”
When she opened it she saw the baby boy. He was crying and she felt sorry for him. “This must be one of the Hebrew boys,” she said.
7 孩子的姊姊对法老的女儿说：“我去在希伯来妇人中叫一个奶妈来，为你奶这孩子，可以不可以？”
His sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, “Would you like me to go and find one of the Hebrew women to nurse him for you?”
8 法老的女儿说：“可以。”童女就去叫了孩子的母亲来。
“Yes, go and do that,” she replied. So the girl went and called the baby's mother to come.
9 法老的女儿对她说：“你把这孩子抱去，为我奶他，我必给你工价。”妇人就抱了孩子去奶他。
“Take this baby boy and nurse him for me,” she told his mother. “I will pay you myself.” So his mother took him home and nursed him.
10 孩子渐长，妇人把他带到法老的女儿那里，就作了她的儿子。她给孩子起名叫摩西，意思说：“因我把他从水里拉出来。”
When the boy was older she took him to Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him as her son. She called him Moses, because she said, “I pulled him out of the water.”
11 后来，摩西长大，他出去到他弟兄那里，看他们的重担，见一个埃及人打希伯来人的一个弟兄。
Later, when Moses had grown up, he went to visit his people, the Hebrews. He saw them doing hard labor. He also saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
12 他左右观看，见没有人，就把埃及人打死了，藏在沙土里。
He looked all around to make sure no one was watching, and then he killed the Egyptian and buried his body in the sand.
13 第二天他出去，见有两个希伯来人争斗，就对那欺负人的说：“你为什么打你同族的人呢？”
The following day he went back and he saw two Hebrews fighting with each other. He said to the one at fault, “Why are you beating one of your own people?”
14 那人说：“谁立你作我们的首领和审判官呢？难道你要杀我，像杀那埃及人吗？”摩西便惧怕，说：“这事必是被人知道了。”
“Who put you in charge to judge us?” the man replied. “Are you going to kill me like you did the Egyptian?” Moses became frightened at this, and said to himself, “People know what I've done!”
15 法老听见这事，就想杀摩西，但摩西躲避法老，逃往米甸地居住。
When Pharaoh found out, he tried to have Moses killed, but Moses ran away from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian. One day as he was sitting by a well,
16 一日，他在井旁坐下。米甸的祭司有七个女儿；她们来打水，打满了槽，要饮父亲的群羊。
and the Midianite priest's seven daughters came to fetch water to fill up the troughs so their father's flock could drink.
17 有牧羊的人来，把她们赶走了，摩西却起来帮助她们，又饮了她们的群羊。
Some shepherds arrived and chased them off, but Moses intervened and rescued them, and watered their flock.
18 她们来到父亲流珥那里；他说：“今日你们为何来得这么快呢？”
When they got home, their father Reuel asked them, “How did you get back so quickly today?”
19 她们说：“有一个埃及人救我们脱离牧羊人的手，并且为我们打水饮了群羊。”
“An Egyptian rescued us from some shepherds who attacked us,” they replied. “Then he even fetched water for us so the flock could drink.”
20 他对女儿们说：“那个人在哪里？你们为什么撇下他呢？你们去请他来吃饭。”
“So where is he?” Reuel asked his daughter. “You didn't just leave him there, did you? Go and invite him to eat with us!”
21 摩西甘心和那人同住；那人把他的女儿西坡拉给摩西为妻。
Moses agreed to stay with the man, who arranged for his daughter Zipporah to marry Moses.
22 西坡拉生了一个儿子，摩西给他起名叫革舜，意思说：“因我在外邦作了寄居的。”
She had a son, and Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I'm an exile living in a foreign country.”
23 过了多年，埃及王死了。以色列人因做苦工，就叹息哀求，他们的哀声达于 神。
Years later, the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites were still groaning under their hard labor. Their cries for help because of their hardship reached God.
24 神听见他们的哀声，就记念他与亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各所立的约。
God heard their groans, and recalled his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
25 神看顾以色列人，也知道他们的苦情。
God also looked sympathetically on the Israelites, and was concerned for them.
