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 goes a man of the house of Levi, and he takes the 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 conceives, and bears a son, and she sees him, that he [is] beautiful, and she hides 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。
and she has not been able to hide him anymore, and she takes an ark of rushes for him, and covers it with bitumen and with pitch, and puts the boy in it, and puts [it] in the weeds by the edge of the River;
4 孩子的姊姊远远站着，要知道他究竟怎么样。
and his sister stations herself far off, to know what is 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 a daughter of Pharaoh comes down to bathe at the River, and her girls are walking by the side of the River, and she sees the ark in the midst of the weeds, and sends her handmaid, and she takes 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 opens, and sees him—the boy, and behold, a child weeping! And she has pity on him and says, “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？”
And his sister says to the daughter of Pharaoh, “Do I go? When I have called a suckling woman of the Hebrews for you, then she suckles the boy for you”;
8 法老的女儿说：“可以。”童女就去叫了孩子的母亲来。
and the daughter of Pharaoh says to her, “Go”; and the virgin goes, and calls the mother of the boy,
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 the daughter of Pharaoh says to her, “Take this boy away, and suckle him for me, and I give your hire”; and the woman takes the boy, and suckles 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。”
And the boy grows, and she brings him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he is to her for a son, and she calls his name Moses, and says, “Because I have drawn him from 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 comes to pass, in those days, that Moses is grown, and he goes out to his brothers, and looks on their burdens, and sees a man, an Egyptian, striking a man, a 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 turns here and there, and sees that there is no man, and strikes the Egyptian, and hides 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 he goes out on the second day, and behold, two men, Hebrews, are striving, and he says to the wrongdoer, “Why do you strike your neighbor?”
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 says, “Who set you for a head and judge over us? Are you saying [it] to slay me as you have slain the Egyptian?” And Moses fears and says, “Surely the thing has been 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。
And Pharaoh hears of this thing, and seeks to slay Moses, and Moses flees from the face of Pharaoh, and dwells in the land of Midian, and dwells by the 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 to a priest of Midian [are] seven daughters, and they come and draw, and fill the troughs to water the flock of their father,
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 come and drive them away, and Moses arises, and saves them, and waters 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 they come to their father Reuel, and he says, “Why have you hurried to come in 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。”
And they say, “A man, an Egyptian, has delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and has also diligently drawn for us, and waters 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 says to his daughters, “And where [is] he? Why [is] this [that] you left the man? Call for him, and he eats 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 is willing to dwell with the man, and he gives his daughter Zipporah to 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。”
and she bears a son, and he calls his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner 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 comes to pass during these many days, that the king of Egypt dies, and the sons of Israel sigh because of the service, and cry, and their cry goes up to God, because of the service;
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 hears their groaning, and God remembers 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 sees the sons of Israel, and God knows.
