10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became (A)her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I (B)drew him out of the water.”[a]

Moses Flees to Midian

11 One day, (C)when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their (D)burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.[b] 12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he (E)struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:10 Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out
  2. Exodus 2:11 Hebrew brothers

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