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But when she couldhide him nolonger, she got him a wickerbasket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
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The daughter of Pharaohcamedown to bathe at the Nile, with her maidenswalkingalongside* the Nile; and she saw the basketamong the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her.
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Then Pharaoh'sdaughtersaid to her, "Takethischild away and nurse him for me and I will give you your wages." So the womantook the child and nursed him.
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The childgrew, and she brought him to Pharaoh'sdaughter and he became her son. And she named* him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
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Now it came about in thosedays, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their hardlabors; and he saw an Egyptianbeating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
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But he said, "Whomade you a prince or a judgeover us? Are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and said, "Surely the matter has become known."
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When Pharaohheard of thismatter, he tried to killMoses. But Mosesfled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he satdown by a well.
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Now it came about in the course of thosemanydays that the king of Egyptdied. And the sons of Israelsighedbecause of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for helpbecause of their bondagerose up to God.