出埃及記 2
1 有一個利未家的人娶了一個利未女子為妻。
It was around this time that a man from the tribe of Levi married a woman, also a Levite.
2 那女人懷孕，生一個兒子，見他俊美，就藏了他三個月，
She became pregnant and had a son. She saw he was a lovely baby, and she hid him for three months.
3 後來不能再藏，就取了一個蒲草箱，抹上石漆和石油，將孩子放在裏頭，把箱子擱在河邊的蘆荻中。
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 孩子的姊姊遠遠站着，要知道他究竟怎麼樣。
His sister waited some distance away, keeping an eye on him.
5 法老的女兒來到河邊洗澡，她的使女們在河邊行走。她看見箱子在蘆荻中，就打發一個婢女拿來。
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 她打開箱子，看見那孩子。孩子哭了，她就可憐他，說：「這是希伯來人的一個孩子。」
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 孩子的姊姊對法老的女兒說：「我去在希伯來婦人中叫一個奶媽來，為你奶這孩子，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 法老的女兒說：「可以。」童女就去叫了孩子的母親來。
“Yes, go and do that,” she replied. So the girl went and called the baby's mother to come.
9 法老的女兒對她說：「你把這孩子抱去，為我奶他，我必給你工價。」婦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 孩子漸長，婦人把他帶到法老的女兒那裏，就作了她的兒子。她給孩子起名叫摩西，意思說：「因我把他從水裏拉出來。」
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 後來，摩西長大，他出去到他弟兄那裏，看他們的重擔，見一個埃及人打希伯來人的一個弟兄。
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 他左右觀看，見沒有人，就把埃及人打死了，藏在沙土裏。
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，見有兩個希伯來人爭鬥，就對那欺負人的說：「你為甚麼打你同族的人呢？」
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 那人說：「誰立你作我們的首領和審判官呢？難道你要殺我，像殺那埃及人嗎？」摩西便懼怕，說：「這事必是被人知道了。」
“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 法老聽見這事，就想殺摩西，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。米甸的祭司有七個女兒；她們來打水，打滿了槽，要飲父親的群羊。
and the Midianite priest's seven daughters came to fetch water to fill up the troughs so their father's flock could drink.
17 有牧羊的人來，把她們趕走了，摩西卻起來幫助她們，又飲了她們的群羊。
Some shepherds arrived and chased them off, but Moses intervened and rescued them, and watered their flock.
18 她們來到父親流珥那裏；他說：「今日你們為何來得這麼快呢？」
When they got home, their father Reuel asked them, “How did you get back so quickly today?”
19 她們說：「有一個埃及人救我們脫離牧羊人的手，並且為我們打水飲了群羊。」
“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 他對女兒們說：「那個人在哪裏？你們為甚麼撇下他呢？你們去請他來吃飯。」
“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；那人把他的女兒西坡拉給摩西為妻。
Moses agreed to stay with the man, who arranged for his daughter Zipporah to marry Moses.
22 西坡拉生了一個兒子，摩西給他起名叫革舜，意思說：「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 過了多年，埃及王死了。以色列人因做苦工，就歎息哀求，他們的哀聲達於上帝。
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 上帝聽見他們的哀聲，就記念他與亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各所立的約。
God heard their groans, and recalled his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
25 上帝看顧以色列人，也知道他們的苦情。
God also looked sympathetically on the Israelites, and was concerned for them.
