Exodus 2:13 - Prayer Tents

2Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,H3212H376H1004H3878H3947H1323H3878 2and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.H802H2029H3205H1121H7200H2896H6845H7969H3391 3But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.H3201H5750H6845H3947H8392H1573H2560H2564H2203H7760H3206H7760H5488H2975H8193 4His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.H269H3320H7350H3045H6213 5Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it.H1323H6547H3381H7364H2975H5291H1980H2975H3027H7200H8392H8432H5488H7971H519H3947 6She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said.H6605H7200H3206H5288H1058H2550H559H5680H3206 7Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?"H559H269H6547H1323H3212H7121H3243H5680H802H3243H3206 8"Yes, go," she answered. And the girl went and got the baby's mother.H6547H1323H559H3212H5959H3212H7121H3206H517 9Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you." So the woman took the baby and nursed him.H6547H1323H559H3212H3206H3212H3243H5414H7939H802H3947H3206H5134 10When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, "I drew him out of the water."H3206H1431H935H6547H1323H1121H7121H8034H4872H559H4871H4325 11One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.H3117H4872H1431H3318H251H7200H5450H7200H4713H376H5221H5680H251 12Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.H6437H3541H3541H7200H376H5221H4713H2934H2344 13The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?"H3318H8145H3117H8147H582H5680H5327H559H7563H5221H7453 14The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and thought, "What I did must have become known."H559H7760H376H8269H8199H559H2026H2026H4713H4872H3372H559H403H1697H3045 15When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.H6547H8085H1697H1245H2026H4872H4872H1272H6440H6547H3427H776H4080H3427H875 16Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.H3548H4080H7651H1323H935H1802H4390H7298H8248H1H6629 17Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.H7462H935H1644H4872H6965H3467H8248H6629 18When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, "Why have you returned so early today?"H935H7467H1H559H4069H935H4116H3117 19They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock."H559H4713H376H5337H3027H7462H1802H1802H8248H6629 20"And where is he?" he asked his daughters. "Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat."H559H1323H5800H376H7121H398H3899 21Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.H4872H2974H3427H376H5414H4872H6855H1323 22Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, "I have become a foreigner in a foreign land."H3205H1121H7121H8034H1647H559H1616H5237H776 23During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.H1992H7227H3117H4428H4714H4191H1121H3478H584H4480H5656H2199H7775H5927H430H5656 24God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.H430H8085H5009H430H2142H1285H85H3327H3290 25So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.H430H7200H1121H3478H430H3045