Exodus 2:5-25

2:5

daughter <01323> [daughter.]

Nile ......... river <02975> [herself.]

As the word herself is not in the original, Dr. A. Clarke is of opinion that it was for the purpose of washing, not her person, but her clothes, that Pharaoh's daughter came to the river; which was an employment not beneath even king's daughters in those primitive times.

saw <07200> [when she.]

2:6

compassion <02550> [she had compassion.]

2:7

2:8

<03212> [Go.]

mother <0517> [mother.]

2:10

son <01121> [and he.]

Moses <04872> [Moses. Drawn out. Because.]

2:11

Moses <04872> [A.M. 2473. B.C. 1531. Moses.]

hard labor <05450> [burdens.]

2:12

looked <06437> [he looked.]

attacked <05221> [slew.]

If the Egyptian killed the Hebrew, Moses only acted agreeably to the divine law (Ge 9:6) in thus slaying the Egyptian; nor did he violate the law of Egypt; for, according to Diodorus Siculus (1. 1.  17), "he who saw a man killed, or violently assaulted on the highway, and did not rescue him, if he could, was punished with death." Moses, therefore, in this transaction, acted as a brave and good man; especially as at this time there was little probability of obtaining justice on an Egyptian murderer.

2:13

said <0559> [and he said.]

2:14

made <07760> [Who.]

ruler <08269> [a prince. Heb. a man, a prince.]

Moses <04872> [Moses.]

2:15

fled <01272> [fled.]

Midian <04080> [Midian.]

settled ......... settled <03427> [sat down.]

2:16

priest <03548> [the priest. or, prince.]

came <0935> [they came.]

2:17

shepherds <07462> [shepherds.]

watered <08248> [watered.]

2:18

[Jethro. or, Jether.]

[Raguel.]

2:19

Egyptian <04713> [an Egyptian.]

actually drew <01802> [and also.]

2:20

Call ....... eat <07121 0398> [call him.]

2:21

agreed <02974> [content.]

Zipporah <06855> [Zipporah.]

2:22

Gershom <01647> [Gershom. i.e., a stranger here.]

said <0559> [for he said.]

2:23

<01992> [A.M. cir. 2504. B.C. cir. 1500. in process.]

king <04428> [the king.]

groaned <0584> [sighed.]

desperate cry <07775> [cry.]

2:24

God heard .... God <08085 0430> [God heard.]

remembered <02142> [remembered.]

2:25

saw <07200> [looked.]

God ...... God <0430> [God.]

For {elohim,} God, Houbigant reads {aleyhem,} unto them; which is countenanced by the LXX., Vulgate, Chaldee, Coptic, and Arabic, and appears to have been the original reading.

understood <03045> [had respect. Heb. knew.]