Êxodo 2:1-10

O Nascimento de Moisés

1 Um homem da tribo de Levi casou-se com uma mulher da mesma tribo,

2 e ela engravidou e deu à luz um filho. Vendo que era bonito, ela o escondeu por três meses.

3 Quando já não podia mais escondê-lo, pegou um cesto feito de junco e o vedou com piche e betume. Colocou nele o menino e deixou o cesto entre os juncos, à margem do Nilo.

4 A irmã do menino ficou observando de longe para ver o que lhe aconteceria.

5 A filha do faraó descera ao Nilo para tomar banho. Enquanto isso, as suas servas andavam pela margem do rio. Nisso viu o cesto entre os juncos e mandou sua criada apanhá-lo.

6 Ao abri-lo, viu um bebê chorando. Ficou com pena dele e disse: “Este menino é dos hebreus”.

7 Então a irmã do menino aproximou-se e perguntou à filha do faraó: “A senhora quer que eu vá chamar uma mulher dos hebreus para amamentar e criar o menino?”

8 “Quero”, respondeu ela. E a moça foi chamar a mãe do menino.

9 Então a filha do faraó disse à mulher: “Leve este menino e amamente-o para mim, e eu pagarei você por isso”. A mulher levou o menino e o amamentou.

10 Tendo o menino crescido, ela o levou à filha do faraó, que o adotou e lhe deu o nome de Moisés, dizendo: “Porque eu o tirei das águas”.

Êxodo 2:1-10 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