Exodus 2
1 Egressus est post haec vir de domo Levi: et accepit uxorem stirpis suae.
And there goes a man of the house of Levi, and he takes the daughter of Levi,
2 quae concepit, et peperit filium: et videns eum elegantem, abscondit tribus mensibus.
and the woman conceives, and bears a son, and she sees him, that he [is] beautiful, and she hides him [for] three months,
3 Cumque iam celare non posset, sumpsit fiscellam scirpeam, et linivit eam bitumine ac pice: posuitque intus infantulum, et exposuit eum in carecto ripae fluminis,
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 stante procul sorore eius, et considerante eventum rei.
and his sister stations herself far off, to know what is done to him.
5 Ecce autem descendebat filia Pharaonis ut lavaretur in flumine: et puellae eius gradiebantur per crepidinem alvei. Quae cum vidisset fiscellam in papyrione, misit unam e famulabus suis: et allatam
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 aperiens, cernensque in ea parvulum vagientem, miserta eius, ait: De infantibus Hebraeorum est hic.
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 Cui soror pueri: Vis, inquit, ut vadam, et vocem tibi mulierem Hebraeam, quae nutrire possit infantulum?
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 Respondit: Vade. Perrexit puella et vocavit matrem suam.
and the daughter of Pharaoh says to her, “Go”; and the virgin goes, and calls the mother of the boy,
9 Ad quam locuta filia Pharaonis: Accipe, ait, puerum istum, et nutri mihi: ego dabo tibi mercedem tuam. Suscepit mulier, et nutrivit puerum: adultumque tradidit filiae Pharaonis.
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 Quem illa adoptavit in locum filii, vocavitque nomen eius Moyses, dicens: Quia de aqua tuli eum.
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 In diebus illis postquam creverat Moyses, egressus est ad fratres suos: viditque afflictionem eorum, et virum Aegyptium percutientem quemdam de Hebraeis fratribus suis.
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 Cumque circumspexisset huc atque illuc, et nullum adesse vidisset, percussum Aegyptium abscondit sabulo.
and he turns here and there, and sees that there is no man, and strikes the Egyptian, and hides him in the sand.
13 Et egressus die altero conspexit duos Hebraeos rixantes: dixitque ei qui faciebat iniuriam: Quare percutis proximum tuum?
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 Qui respondit: Quis constituit te principem et iudicem super nos? num occidere me tu vis, sicut heri occidisti Aegyptium? Timuit Moyses, et ait: Quomodo palam factum est verbum istud?
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 Audivitque Pharao sermonem hunc, et quaerebat occidere Moysen: qui fugiens de conspectu eius, moratus est in Terra Madian, et sedit iuxta puteum.
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 Erant autem sacerdoti Madian septem filiae, quae venerant ad hauriendam aquam: et impletis canalibus adaquare cupiebant greges patris sui.
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 Supervenere pastores, et eiecerunt eas: surrexitque Moyses, et defensis puellis, adaquavit oves earum.
and the shepherds come and drive them away, and Moses arises, and saves them, and waters their flock.
18 Quae cum revertissent ad Raguel patrem suum, dixit ad eas: Cur velocius venistis solito?
And they come to their father Reuel, and he says, “Why have you hurried to come in today?”
19 Responderunt: Vir Aegyptius liberavit nos de manu pastorum: insuper et hausit aquam nobiscum, potumque dedit ovibus.
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 At ille: Ubi est? inquit, Quare dimisistis hominem? vocate eum ut comedat panem.
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 Iuravit ergo Moyses quod habitaret cum eo. Accepitque Sephoram filiam eius uxorem:
And Moses is willing to dwell with the man, and he gives his daughter Zipporah to Moses,
22 quae peperit ei filium, quem vocavit Gersam, dicens: Advena fui in terra aliena. Alterum vero peperit, quem vocavit Eliezer, dicens: Deus enim patris mei adiutor meus et eripuit me de manu Pharaonis.
and she bears a son, and he calls his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a strange land.”
23 Post multum vero tempore mortuus est rex Aegypti: et ingemiscentes filii Israel, propter opera vociferati sunt: ascenditque clamor eorum ad Deum ab operibus.
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 Et audivit gemitum eorum, ac recordatus est foederis quod pepigit cum Abraham, Isaac, et Iacob.
and God hears their groaning, and God remembers His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;
25 Et respexit Dominus filios Israel et liberavit eos.
and God sees the sons of Israel, and God knows.
