출애굽기(Exodus) 2장

 

 

출애굽기(Exodus) 2장

 

1. Now a man of the house of Levi married

a Levite woman,

 

2. and she became pregnant and gave

birth to a son. When she saw that he

was a fine child, she hid him for three

months.

 

3. But 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.

 

4. His sister stood at a distance to see

what would happen to him.

 

5. Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to

the Nile to bathe, and her attendants

were walking along the river bank. She

saw the basket among the reeds and

sent her slave girl to get it.

 

6. She opened it and saw the baby. He was

crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This is

one of the Hebrew babies," She said.

 

7. Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter,

"Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew

women to nurse the baby for you?"

 

8. "Yes, go," she answered. And the girl

went and got the baby's mother.

 

9. Pharaoh'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.

 

10. When 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."

 

11. One 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.

 

12. Glancing this way and that and seeing

on one, he killed the Egyptian and hid

him in the sand.

 

13. The next day he went out and saw two

Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the

wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow

Hebrew?"

 

14. The 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."

 

15. When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried

to kill Moses, but Moses fled from

Pharaoh and went to live in Midan,

where he sat down by a well.

 

16. Now a priest of Midian had seven

daughters, and they came to draw water

and fill the troughs to water their

father's flock.

 

17. Some shepherds came along and

drove them away, but Moses got up

and came to their rescue and watered

their flock.

 

18. When the girls returned to Reuel their

father, he asked them, "Why have you

returned so early today?"

 

19. They answered, "An Egyptian rescued

us from the shepherds. He even drew

water for us and watered the flock."

 

20. "And where is he?" he asked his

daughters. "Why did you leave him?

Invite him to have something to eat."

 

21. Moses agreed to stay with the man,

who gave his daughter Zipporah to

Moses in marriage.

 

22. Zipporah gave birth to a son, and

Moses named him Gershom, saying,

"I have become an alien in a foreign

land."

 

23. During 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.

 

24. God heard their groaning and he

remembered his covenant with

Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.

 

25. So God looked on the Israelites and

was concerned about them.