20 Wherefore God did good to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and mightily increased.

21 And because the midwives feared God, he built their houses.

22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Cast every newborn son into the river, and let every daughter live."

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1 A man of the tribe of Levi went and took a wife from the same tribe.

2 And the woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was very handsome, she hid him for three months;

3 but not being able to hide it any longer, she took a basket of reeds, and tarred it with asphalt and pitch, and put the child in it, and set it in the reeds by the bank of the river,

4 And his sister began to observe afar off what would become of him.

5 And Pharaoh's daughter went out into the river to wash, and her maids walked along the bank of the river. She saw a basket among the reeds, and sent her maidservant to take it.

6 Открыла и увидела младенца; и вот, дитя плачет [в корзинке]; и сжалилась над ним [дочь фараонова] и сказала: это из Еврейских детей.

7 И сказала сестра его дочери фараоновой: не сходить ли мне и не позвать ли к тебе кормилицу из Евреянок, чтоб она вскормила тебе младенца?

8 Дочь фараонова сказала ей: сходи. Девица пошла и призвала мать младенца.

9 Дочь фараонова сказала ей: возьми младенца сего и вскорми его мне; я дам тебе плату. Женщина взяла младенца и кормила его.

10 И вырос младенец, и она привела его к дочери фараоновой, и он был у нее вместо сына, и нарекла имя ему: Моисей, потому что, говорила она, я из воды вынула его.

11 And after a long time, when Moses was grown up, it came to pass that he went out to his brethren, and saw their hard labors; And he saw that the Egyptian was smiting one of his brethren [the children of Israel].

12 And when he had looked hither and thither, and saw that there was no one, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

13 And he went out the next day, and behold, two Jews were quarrelling; And he said to the offender, Why do you strike your neighbor?

14 And he said, 'Who hath made thee ruler and judge over us?' do you not think to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses was afraid, and said, Surely they have learned of this matter.

15 And Pharaoh heard of the matter, and would have killed Moses; but Moses fled from Pharaoh, and stopped in the land of Midian, and sat down by the well.

16 And the priest of Midian [had] seven daughters, [who tended the sheep of their father Jethro]. And they came, and drew water, and filled the troughs, to water their father's sheep.

17 And the shepherds came and drove them away. Then Moses arose and defended them, and drew water for them, and watered their sheep.