Exodus 2
1 egressus est post haec vir de domo Levi accepta uxore stirpis suae
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
2 quae concepit et peperit filium et videns eum elegantem abscondit tribus mensibus
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 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 when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
4 stante procul sorore eius et considerante eventum rei
And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be 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 famulis suis et adlatam
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.
6 aperiens cernensque in ea parvulum vagientem miserta eius ait de infantibus Hebraeorum est
And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept. And she had compassion on him, and said: 'This is one of the Hebrews' children.'
7 cui soror pueri vis inquit ut vadam et vocem tibi hebraeam mulierem quae nutrire possit infantulum
Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter: 'Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?'
8 respondit vade perrexit puella et vocavit matrem eius
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: 'Go.' And the maiden went and called the child's mother.
9 ad quam locuta filia Pharaonis accipe ait puerum istum et nutri mihi ego tibi dabo mercedem tuam suscepit mulier et nutrivit puerum adultumque tradidit filiae Pharaonis
And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her: 'Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.' And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
10 quem illa adoptavit in locum filii vocavitque nomen eius Mosi dicens quia de aqua tuli eum
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said: 'Because I drew him out of the water.'
11 in diebus illis postquam creverat Moses egressus ad fratres suos vidit adflictionem eorum et virum aegyptium percutientem quendam de Hebraeis fratribus suis
And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
12 cumque circumspexisset huc atque illuc et nullum adesse vidisset percussum Aegyptium abscondit sabulo
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
13 et egressus die altero conspexit duos Hebraeos rixantes dixitque ei qui faciebat iniuriam quare percutis proximum tuum
And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong: 'Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?'
14 qui respondit quis constituit te principem et iudicem super nos num occidere me tu dicis sicut occidisti Aegyptium timuit Moses et ait quomodo palam factum est verbum istud
And he said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said: 'Surely the thing is known.'
15 audivitque Pharao sermonem hunc et quaerebat occidere Mosen qui fugiens de conspectu eius moratus est in terra Madian et sedit iuxta puteum
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.
16 erant sacerdoti Madian septem filiae quae venerunt ad hauriendas aquas et impletis canalibus adaquare cupiebant greges patris sui
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 supervenere pastores et eiecerunt eas surrexitque Moses et defensis puellis adaquavit oves earum
And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18 quae cum revertissent ad Raguhel patrem suum dixit ad eas cur velocius venistis solito
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said: 'How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?'
19 responderunt vir aegyptius liberavit nos de manu pastorum insuper et hausit aquam nobiscum potumque dedit ovibus
And they said: 'An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.'
20 at ille ubi est inquit quare dimisistis hominem vocate eum ut comedat panem
And he said unto his daughters: 'And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.'
21 iuravit ergo Moses quod habitaret cum eo accepitque Sefforam filiam eius
And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
22 quae peperit filium quem vocavit Gersam dicens advena fui in terra aliena
And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said: 'I have been a stranger in a strange land.'
23 post multum temporis mortuus est rex Aegypti et ingemescentes filii Israhel propter opera vociferati sunt ascenditque clamor eorum ad Deum ab operibus
And it came to pass in the course of those many days 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 unto God by reason of the bondage.
24 et audivit gemitum eorum ac recordatus foederis quod pepigerat cum Abraham et Isaac et Iacob
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 respexit filios Israhel et cognovit eos
And God saw the children of Israel, and God took cognizance of them.
