Exodus 2:9-19

9 Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away and nurse him for me and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.

10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and ¹he became her son. And she named * him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

11 Now it came about in those days, ²when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their ³hard labors; and ⁴he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

12 So he looked this way and that, and when he saw there was no one around, he ⁵struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

13 He went out ⁶the next day, and behold, two Hebrews were fighting with each other; and he said to the offender, "Why are you striking your companion?"

14 But he said, "⁷Who made you a prince or a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and said, "Surely the matter has become known."

Moses Escapes to Midian

15 When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But ⁸Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down ⁹by a well.

16 Now ¹⁰the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and ¹¹they came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

17 Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but ¹²Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock.

18 When they came to ¹³Reuel their father, he said, "Why have you come back so soon today?"

19 So they said, "An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and what is more, he even drew the water for us and watered the flock."

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Exodus 2:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 2

This chapter relates the birth of Moses, and his preservation in an ark of bulrushes, Ex 2:1-3. His being found by Pharaoh's daughter, took up, and put out to nurse by her, and adopted for her son, Ex 2:4-10, some exploits of his when grown up, taking the part of an Hebrew against an Egyptian whom he slew, and endeavouring to reconcile two Hebrews at variance, when one of them reproached him with slaying the Egyptian, Ex 2:11-14, which thing being known to Pharaoh, he sought to slay Moses, and this obliged him to flee to Midian, Ex 2:15 where he met with the daughters of Reuel, and defended them against the shepherds, and watered their flocks for them, Ex 2:16,17, which Reuel being informed of, sent for him, and he lived with him, and married his daughter Zipporah, by whom he had a son, Ex 2:18-22 and the chapter is concluded with the death of the king of Egypt, and the sore bondage of the Israelites, and their cries and groans, which God had a respect unto, Ex 2:23-25.

was Amram, the son of Kohath, and grandson of Levi, as appears from Ex 6:18,20

\\and took to wife a daughter of Levi\\; one of the same house, family, or tribe; which was proper, that the tribes might be kept distinct: this was Jochebed, said to be his father's sister, \\see Gill on "Ex 6:20"\\: her name in Josephus {s} is Joachebel, which seems to be no other than a corruption of Jochebed, but in the Targum in 1Ch 4:18 she is called Jehuditha.

{s} Antiqu. l. 2. c. 9. sect. 4. 09514-950103-1343-Ex2.2

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

1. Acts 7:21
2. Acts 7:23; Hebrews 11:24-26
3. Exodus 1:11; Exodus 5:4, 5; Exodus 6:6, 7
4. Acts 7:24
5. Acts 7:24, 25
6. Acts 7:26-28
7. Genesis 19:9; Acts 7:27, 28
8. Acts 7:29; Hebrews 11:27
9. Genesis 24:11; Genesis 29:2
10. Exodus 3:1; Exodus 18:12
11. Gen 24:11, 13, 19; Genesis 29:9, 10; 1 Samuel 9:11
12. Genesis 29:3, 10
13. Exodus 3:1; Numbers 10:29

Footnotes 9

[a]. Heb "Mosheh," from "mashah"
[b]. Heb "mashah"
[c]. Lit "burdens"
[d]. Lit "turned"
[e]. Or "quarreling"
[f]. Or "the guilty one"
[g]. Lit "man, a prince"
[h]. Lit "saying in your heart"
[i]. Lit "dwelt"