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Text -- Exodus 2:1-10 (NET)
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The Birth of the Deliverer
2:1 A man from the household of Levi married a woman who was a descendant of Levi .
2:2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son . When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months .
2:3 But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch . She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile .
2:4 His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him.
2:5 Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself by the Nile , while her attendants were walking alongside the river , and she saw the basket among the reeds . She sent one of her attendants , took it,
2:6 opened it, and saw the child – a boy , crying !– and she felt compassion for him and said , “This is one of the Hebrews ’ children .”
2:7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter , “Shall I go and get a nursing woman for you from the Hebrews , so that she may nurse the child for you?”
2:8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Yes, do so .” So the young girl went and got the child’s mother .
2:9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages .” So the woman took the child and nursed him.
2:10 When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter , and he became her son . She named him Moses , saying , “Because I drew him from the water .”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Moses |
Jochebed |
Miriam |
WOMAN |
GENESIS, 1-2 |
Israel |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 2 |
Rulers |
Egyptians |
God |
Parents |
Flag |
Adoption |
Quotations and Allusions |
PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER |
Bulrush |
Kindness |
PHARAOHS DAUGHTER |
Servant |
PITCH |
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NET Notes -> Exo 2:1; Exo 2:1; Exo 2:1; Exo 2:1; Exo 2:1; Exo 2:2; Exo 2:2; Exo 2:2; Exo 2:2; Exo 2:3; Exo 2:3; Exo 2:4; Exo 2:4; Exo 2:4; Exo 2:5; Exo 2:5; Exo 2:5; Exo 2:5; Exo 2:5; Exo 2:6; Exo 2:6; Exo 2:6; Exo 2:6; Exo 2:6; Exo 2:7; Exo 2:7; Exo 2:7; Exo 2:7; Exo 2:8; Exo 2:8; Exo 2:8; Exo 2:8; Exo 2:9; Exo 2:9; Exo 2:10; Exo 2:10; Exo 2:10
NET Notes: Exo 2:1 The first part of this section is the account of hiding the infant (vv. 1-4). The marriage, the birth, the hiding of the child, and the positioning of...
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NET Notes: Exo 2:2 Or “fine” (טוֹב, tov). The construction is parallel to phrases in the creation narrative (“and God saw that ...
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NET Notes: Exo 2:3 The circumstances of the saving of the child Moses have prompted several attempts by scholars to compare the material to the Sargon myth. See R. F. Jo...
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NET Notes: Exo 2:4 The verb is a Niphal imperfect; it should be classified here as a historic future, future from the perspective of a point in a past time narrative.
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NET Notes: Exo 2:5 The verb is preterite, third person feminine singular, with a pronominal suffix, from לָקַח (laqakh, “to take̶...
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NET Notes: Exo 2:6 The verb could be given a more colloquial translation such as “she felt sorry for him.” But the verb is stronger than that; it means ̶...
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NET Notes: Exo 2:7 No respectable Egyptian woman of this period would have undertaken the task of nursing a foreigner’s baby, and so the suggestion by Miriam was p...
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NET Notes: Exo 2:8 During this period of Egyptian history the royal palaces were in the northern or Delta area of Egypt, rather than up the Nile as in later periods. The...
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NET Notes: Exo 2:9 The possessive pronoun on the noun “wage” expresses the indirect object: “I will pay wages to you.”
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