2:1 有一个利未家的人娶了一个利未女子为妻。
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
2:2 那女人怀孕，生一个儿子，见他俊美，就藏了他三个月，
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
2:3 后来不能再藏，就取了一个蒲草箱，抹上石漆和石油，将孩子放在里头，把箱子搁在河边的芦荻中。
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
2:4 孩子的姊姊远远站着，要知道他究竟怎吗样。
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
2:5 法老的女儿来到河边洗澡，她的使女们在河边行走。她看见箱子在芦荻中，就打发一个婢女拿来。
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
2:6 她打开箱子，看见那孩子。孩子哭了，她就可怜他，说，这是希伯来人的一个孩子。
And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
2:7 孩子的姊姊对法老的女儿说，我去在希伯来妇人中叫一个奶妈来，为你奶这孩子，可以不可以。
Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
2:8 法老的女儿说，可以。童女就去叫了孩子的母亲来。
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
2:9 法老的女儿对她说，你把这孩子抱去，为我奶他，我必给你工价。妇人就抱了孩子去奶他。
And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
2:10 孩子渐长，妇人把他带到法老的女儿那里，就作了她的儿子。她给孩子起名叫摩西，意思说，因我把他从水里拉出来。
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
2:11 后来，摩西长大，他出去到他弟兄那里，看他们的重担，见一个埃及人打希伯来人的一个弟兄。
And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
2:12 他左右观看，见没有人，就把埃及人打死了，藏在沙土里。
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
2:13 第二天他出去，见有两个希伯来人争斗，就对那欺负人的说，你为什么打你同族的人呢。
And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
2:14 那人说，谁立你作我们的首领和审判官呢，难道你要杀我，像杀那埃及人吗。摩西便惧怕，说，这事必是被人知道了。
And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
2:15 法老听见这事，就想杀摩西，但摩西躲避法老，逃往米甸地居住。
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
2:16 一日，他在井旁坐下。米甸的祭司有七个女儿，她们来打水，打满了槽，要饮父亲的群羊。
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
2:17 有牧羊的人来，把她们赶走了，摩西却起来帮助她们，又饮了她们的群羊。
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
2:18 她们来到父亲流珥那里，他说，今日你们为何来得这吗快呢。
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
2:19 她们说，有一个埃及人救我们脱离牧羊人的手，并且为我们打水饮了群羊。
And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
2:20 他对女儿们说，那个人在哪里，你们为什么撇下他呢。你们去请他来吃饭。
And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
2:21 摩西甘心和那人同住，那人把他的女儿西坡拉给摩西为妻。
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
2:22 西坡拉生了一个儿子，摩西给他起名叫革舜，意思说，因我在外邦作了寄居的。
And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
2:23 过了多年，埃及王死了。以色列人因作苦工，就叹息哀求，他们的哀声达于神。
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
2:24 神听见他们的哀声，就记念他与亚伯拉罕，以撒，雅各所立的约。
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
2:25 神看顾以色列人，也知道他们的苦情。
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
