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Exodus 2 ERV · ERV Bible Reading

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  SPEAKER_00: Exodus 2 Baby Moses There was a man from the family of Levi who decided to marry a woman from the tribe of Levi.
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  SPEAKER_00: She became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy.
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  SPEAKER_00: The mother saw how beautiful the baby was and hid him for three months.
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  SPEAKER_00: She hid him for as long as she could.
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  SPEAKER_00: After three months she made a basket and covered it with tar so that it would float.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then she put the baby in the basket and put the basket in the river in the tall grass.
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  SPEAKER_00: The baby's sister stayed and watched to see what would happen to the baby.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just then Pharaoh's daughter went to the river to bathe.
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  SPEAKER_00: She saw the basket in the tall grass.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her servants were walking beside the river, so she told one of them to go get the basket.
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  SPEAKER_00: The king's daughter opened the basket and saw a baby boy.
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  SPEAKER_00: The baby was crying and she felt sorry for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: She noticed that it was one of the Hebrew babies.
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  SPEAKER_00: The baby's sister was still hiding.
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  SPEAKER_00: She stood and asked the king's daughter, Do you want me to go find a Hebrew woman who can nurse the baby and help you care for it?
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  SPEAKER_00: The king's daughter said yes, please.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the girl went and brought the baby's own mother.
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  SPEAKER_00: The king's daughter said to the mother, Take this baby and feed him for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll pay you to take care of him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the woman took her baby and cared for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The baby grew and after some time the woman gave the baby to the king's daughter.
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  SPEAKER_00: The king's daughter accepted the baby as her own son.
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  SPEAKER_00: She named him Moses because she had pulled him from the water.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses helps his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses grew and became a man.
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  SPEAKER_00: He saw that his own people, the Hebrews, were forced to work very hard.
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  SPEAKER_00: One day he saw an Egyptian man beating a Hebrew man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses looked around and saw that no one was watching, so he killed the Egyptian and buried him in the sand.
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  SPEAKER_00: The next day Moses saw two Hebrew men fighting each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: He saw that one man was wrong and said to him, Why are you hurting your neighbor?
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  SPEAKER_00: The man answered, Did anyone say you could be our ruler and judge?
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell me, will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Moses was afraid.
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  SPEAKER_00: He thought to himself Now everyone knows what I did.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pharaoh heard about what Moses did, so he decided to kill him, but Moses ran away from Pharaoh and went to the land of Midian.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses in Midian Moses stopped near a well in Midian.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was a priest there who had seven daughters.
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  SPEAKER_00: The girls came to that well to get water for their father's sheep.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were trying to fill the water trough with water, but there were some shepherds there who chased the girls away and would not let them get water.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Moses helped the girls and gave water to their animals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then they went back to their father, Raoul, and he asked them, Why have you come home early today?
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  SPEAKER_00: The girls answered The shepherds chased us away, but an Egyptian rescued us, he got water for us and gave it to our animals.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Raoul said to his daughter, Where is this man?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did you leave him?
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  SPEAKER_00: Go invite him to eat with us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses was happy to stay with that man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Raoul let Moses marry his daughter Zippara.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zippara became pregnant and had a son.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses named him Gersham because Moses was a stranger in a land that was not his own.
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  SPEAKER_00: God decides to help Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: A long time passed and that king of Egypt died, but the Israelites were still forced to work very hard.
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  SPEAKER_00: They cried for help and God heard them.
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  SPEAKER_00: God heard their painful cries and remembered the agreement he had made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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  SPEAKER_00: God saw the troubles of the Israelites, and he knew that he would soon help them.