Éxodo 2:1-7

1 Nacimiento de Moisés
En esos días, un hombre y una mujer de la tribu de Leví se casaron.

2 La mujer quedó embarazada y dio a luz un hijo. Al ver que era un niño excepcional, lo escondió durante tres meses.

3 Cuando ya no pudo ocultarlo más, tomó una canasta de juncos de papiro y la recubrió con brea y resina para hacerla resistente al agua. Después puso al niño en la canasta y la acomodó entre los juncos, a la orilla del río Nilo.

4 La hermana del bebé se mantuvo a cierta distancia para ver qué le pasaría al niño.

5 Al poco tiempo, la hija del faraón bajó a bañarse en el río, y sus sirvientas se paseaban por la orilla. Cuando la princesa vio la canasta entre los juncos, mandó a su criada que se la trajera.

6 Al abrir la canasta la princesa vio al bebé. El niño lloraba, y ella sintió lástima por él. «Seguramente es un niño hebreo», dijo.

7 Entonces la hermana del bebé se acercó a la princesa.
—¿Quiere que vaya a buscar a una mujer hebrea para que le amamante al bebé? —le preguntó.

Éxodo 2:1-7 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