出埃及记 2
1 有一个利未家的人娶了一个利未女子为妻。
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
2 那女人怀孕，生一个儿子，见他俊美，就藏了他三个月，
And the woman conceived, and bore a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him 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。
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
4 孩子的姊姊远远站着，要知道他究竟怎么样。
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to 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。
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
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。”
And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.
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？”
Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to you a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?
8 法老的女儿说：“可以。”童女就去叫了孩子的母亲来。
And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.
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。
And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
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。”
And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew 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。
And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brothers, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brothers.
12 他左右观看，见没有人，就把埃及人打死了，藏在沙土里。
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him 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？”
And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Why smite you your fellow?
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。”
And he said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? intend you to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
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。
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelled in the land of Midian: and he sat down 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。
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
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。
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped 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？”
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you are come so soon to day?
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。”
And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
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。”
And he said to his daughters, And where is he? why is it that you have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
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。
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
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。”
And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
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。
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God by reason of the bondage.
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。
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 神看顾以色列人，也知道他们的苦情。
And God looked on the children of Israel, and God had respect to them.
