Exodus 2 (NET)

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Exodus 2:1¹A man from the household of Levi married a woman who was a descendant of Levi.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 26:59 1 Chr 23:12-14 Exod 6:16-20 1 Chr 6:1-3

Exodus 2:2²The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 11:23 Acts 7:20

Exodus 2:3³But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 1:22 Acts 7:19 Gen 6:14 Isa 18:2 Matt 2:16 Matt 2:13 Gen 11:3 Gen 14:10 Isa 19:6

Exodus 2:4⁴His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 26:59 Exod 15:20 Mic 6:4 Num 20:1 Num 12:1-15

Exodus 2:5⁵Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river, and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants, took it,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:21 Ps 12:5 Ps 9:9 Exod 8:20 Ps 46:1 Exod 7:15 Prov 21:1 Ps 76:10 1 Kgs 17:6

Exodus 2:6⁶opened it, and saw the child —a boy, crying! —and she felt compassion for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:50 1 Pet 3:8 Acts 7:21 Neh 1:11 Ps 106:46 Prov 21:1

Exodus 2:7⁷Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get a nursing woman for you from the Hebrews, so that she may nurse the child for you?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 2:4 Num 26:59 Num 12:1 Exod 15:20

Exodus 2:8⁸Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Yes, do so.” So the young girl went and got the child’s mother.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 46:3-4 Ps 27:10 Exod 6:20 Ezek 16:8

Exodus 2:9⁹Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Exodus 2:10¹⁰When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “Because I drew him from the water.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:21-22 Heb 11:24 1 Sam 1:20 Gen 16:11 1 John 3:1 Gal 4:5 Matt 1:21 Gen 4:25 Gen 48:5

Exodus 2:11¹¹In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 11:24-26 Acts 7:22-24 Exod 1:11 Luke 4:18 Matt 11:28 Exod 3:7 Isa 58:6 Exod 5:14 Exod 5:9

Exodus 2:12¹²He looked this way and that and saw that no one was there, and then he attacked the Egyptian and concealed the body in the sand.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:24-26

Exodus 2:13¹³When he went out the next day, there were two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the one who was in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your fellow Hebrew?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:26-28 1 Cor 6:7-8

Exodus 2:14¹⁴The man replied, “Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking, “Surely what I did has become known.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 12:14 Matt 21:23 Gen 19:9 Gen 37:19-20 Luke 19:14 Ps 2:2-6 Acts 7:26-28 Acts 7:35 Gen 13:8 Num 16:13

Exodus 2:15¹⁵When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:29 Heb 11:27 Gen 24:11 Gen 29:2 1 Kgs 19:1-3 1 Kgs 19:13-14 John 4:6 Matt 10:23 Prov 22:3 Exod 4:19

Exodus 2:16¹⁶Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 3:1 Gen 24:11 1 Sam 9:11 Gen 24:14-20 Gen 29:6-10 Gen 41:45

Exodus 2:17¹⁷When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 29:10 Gen 21:25 Exod 2:12 Gen 26:15-22

Exodus 2:18¹⁸So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked, “Why have you come home so early today?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 3:1 Exod 4:18 Num 10:29 Exod 18:1-12 Num 19:20

Exodus 2:19¹⁹They said, “An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 29:10 Gen 50:11

Exodus 2:20²⁰He said to his daughters, “So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 31:54 Gen 43:25 1 Tim 5:10 Gen 18:5 Gen 19:2-3 Gen 24:31-33 Heb 13:2 Job 31:32 Job 42:11 Gen 29:13

Exodus 2:21²¹Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 31:38-40 Heb 13:5 1 Tim 6:6 Exod 18:2-6 Exod 2:10 Exod 4:20-25 Heb 11:25 Jas 1:10 Phil 4:11-12 Num 12:1

Exodus 2:22²²When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:29 Heb 11:13-14 Exod 22:21 1 Chr 16:20 1 Chr 29:15 Ps 119:19 Ps 39:12 1 Chr 23:14-17 Exod 18:3-4

Exodus 2:23²³During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 18:20-21 Jas 5:4 Exod 3:7-9 Acts 7:30 Deut 26:6-7 Exod 22:22-27 Gen 16:11 Isa 19:20 Neh 9:9 Ps 12:5