Exodus 2

1 After these things a man of the house of Levi went out, and took a wife of his kin into fleshly coupling*2:1 ‘into fleshly coupling’; for she was his wife before, and had childed Aaron, and Marie or Miriam, his sister.,

2 which conceived, and childed a son. And she saw him well-faring, and hid him three months.

3 And when she might not cover [him], then she took a basket of sedge, and balmed it with tar and pitch, and put the young child within, and put him forth in a place of spires of the brink of the flood,

4 the while his sister stood afar, and beheld the befalling of the thing.

5 Lo! forsooth the daughter of Pharaoh came down to be washed in the flood, and her damsels walked by the brink of the flood. And when she had seen a basket in the place of spires, she sent one of her servantesses,

6 and she opened the basket brought to her, and she saw a little child weeping therein. And she had mercy on the child, and said, It is of the young children of Hebrews.

7 To whom the child’s sister said, Wilt thou that I go, and call to thee an Hebrew woman, that may nourish the young child?

8 She answered, Go thou. The damsel went, and called the child’s mother.

9 To whom Pharaoh’s daughter spake, and said, Take thou this child, and nourish it to me; and I shall give to thee thy meed. The woman took, and nourished the child,

10 and she betook him, waxen, to Pharaoh’s daughter, whom she purchased into the place of a son; and she called his name Moses*2:10 In Hebrew, ‘Moses’ sounds like the words for ‘pull out’., and said, For I took him from the water.