Exodus 2:10-20

10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses,[a] saying, “I drew him out of the water.”

Moses Flees to Midian

11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
12 Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
14 The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”
15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
17 Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.
18 When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
19 They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
20 “And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”

Cross References 16

  • 1. 1 Samuel 1:20
  • 2. 2 Samuel 22:17
  • 3. Acts 7:23; Hebrews 11:24-26
  • 4. S Exodus 1:11
  • 5. Acts 7:26
  • 6. S Genesis 13:8; Acts 7:27*
  • 7. Exodus 4:19
  • 8. S Genesis 31:21
  • 9. Acts 7:29; Hebrews 11:27
  • 10. Exodus 3:1; Exodus 18:1
  • 11. S Genesis 24:11
  • 12. S Genesis 30:38
  • 13. 1 Samuel 30:8; Psalms 31:2
  • 14. S Genesis 29:10
  • 15. Exodus 3:1; Exodus 4:18; Exodus 18:1,5,12; Numbers 10:29
  • 16. Genesis 18:2-5; Genesis 31:54

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. "Moses" sounds like the Hebrew for "draw out."
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