Chapter 2
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In those days, Moses grew up. He went out to his brothers and saw their suffering. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
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He looked this way and that and saw that there was no one there. Then he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
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He went out on the second day. Behold, two Hebrew men were fighting. He said to the wicked one, "Why do you strike your companion?"
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And he said, "Who made you a man, a chief, and a judge over us? Are you saying, 'To kill me,' just as you killed the Egyptian?" And Moses feared, and he said, "Indeed, the matter is known."
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Pharaoh heard this and sought to kill Moses. Moses fled from Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian, and he sat by the well.
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The priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
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The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses got up, saved them, and watered their flock.
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They came to Reuel their father, and he said, "Why have you come back so quickly today?"
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And they said, "An Egyptian man saved us from the hand of the shepherds. And also he drew, he drew for us, and he watered the flock."
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He said to his daughters, “And why have you left the man? Call him so he can eat bread.”
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Moses agreed to dwell with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
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She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land.”
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And it was in those many days that the king of Egypt died, and the sons of Israel groaned from the servitude. And they cried out, and their cry for deliverance went up to God from the servitude.
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And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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God saw the sons of Israel, and God knew.