Shemot, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} Now these are the names of the sons of Yisra'el, who came into
Mitzrayim (every man and his household came with Ya`akov): {1:2}
Re'uven, Shim`on, Levi, and Yehudah, {1:3} Yissakhar, Zevulun, and
Binyamin, {1:4} Dan and Naftali, Gad and Asher. {1:5} All the souls
who came out of the Ya`akov's body were seventy souls, and Yosef was
in Mitzrayim already. {1:6} Yosef died, as did all his brothers, and
all that generation. {1:7} The children of Yisra'el were fruitful, and
increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and
the land was filled with them.
{1:8} Now there arose a new king over Mitzrayim, who didn't know
Yosef. {1:9} He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the
children of Yisra'el are more and mightier than we. {1:10} Come, let
us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when
any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and
fight against us, and escape out of the land." {1:11} Therefore they
set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They
built storage cities for Par`oh: Pitom and Ra`meses. {1:12} But the
more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they
spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Yisra'el.
{1:13} The Mitzrim ruthlessly made the children of Yisra'el serve,
{1:14} and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar
and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their
service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
{1:15} The king of Mitzrayim spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom
the name of the one was Shifrah, and the name of the other Pu`ah,
{1:16} and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the
Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then
you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."
{1:17} But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of
Mitzrayim commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive. {1:18} The
king of Mitzrayim called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have
you done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?"
{1:19} The midwives said to Par`oh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't
like the Mitzrian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before
the midwife comes to them."
{1:20} God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied,
and grew very mighty. {1:21} It happened, because the midwives feared
God, that he gave them families. {1:22} Par`oh charged all his people,
saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and
every daughter you shall save alive."
{2:1} A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as
his wife. {2:2} The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that
he was a fine child, she hid him three months. {2:3} When she could no
longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with
tar and with [1>]kofer[<1]. She put the child in it, and laid it in
the reeds by the river's bank. {2:4} His sister stood far off, to see
what would be done to him. {2:5} Par`oh's daughter came down to bathe
at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the
basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it. {2:6} She
opened it, and saw the child, and, behold, the baby cried. She had
compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
{2:7} Then his sister said to Par`oh's daughter, "Should I go and
call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the
child for you?"
{2:8} Par`oh's daughter said to her, "Go."
The almah went and called the child's mother. {2:9} Par`oh's
daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and
I will give you your wages."
The woman took the child, and nursed it. {2:10} The child grew, and
she brought him to Par`oh's daughter, and he became her son. She named
him Moshe, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
{2:11} It happened in those days, when Moshe had grown up, that he
went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw a
Mitzrian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. {2:12} He looked this
way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the
Mitzrian, and hid him in the sand.
{2:13} He went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the
Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the
wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"
{2:14} He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you
plan to kill me, as you killed the Mitzrian?"
Moshe was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known." {2:15} Now
when Par`oh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moshe. But Moshe fled
from the face of Par`oh, and lived in the land of Midyan, and he sat
down by a well.
{2:16} Now the [2>]Kohen[<2] of Midyan had seven daughters. They
came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's
flock. {2:17} The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moshe stood
up and helped them, and watered their flock. {2:18} When they came to
Re`u'el, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so
early today?"
{2:19} They said, "A Mitzrian delivered us out of the hand of the
shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."
{2:20} He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you
have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
{2:21} Moshe was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moshe
Tzipporah, his daughter. {2:22} She bore a son, and he named him
Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land."
{2:23} It happened in the course of those many days, that the king
of Mitzrayim died, and the children of Yisra'el sighed because of the
bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the
bondage. {2:24} God heard their groaning, and God remembered his
covenant with Avraham, with Yitzchak, and with Ya`akov. {2:25} God saw
the children of Yisra'el, and God was concerned about them.
{3:1} Now Moshe was keeping the flock of Yitro, his father-in-law,
the [1>]Kohen[<1] of Midyan, and he led the flock to the back of the
wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horev. {3:2} The angel of
the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a
bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush
was not consumed. {3:3} Moshe said, I will turn aside now, and see
this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. {3:4} When the LORD saw
that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the
bush, and said, "Moshe! Moshe!"
He said, "Here I am."
{3:5} He said, "Don't come close. Take off your sandals from off
your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground." {3:6}
Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Avraham,
the God of Yitzchak, and the God of Ya`akov."
Moshe hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
{3:7} The LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people
who are in Mitzrayim, and have heard their cry because of their
taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. {3:8} I have come down to
deliver them out of the hand of the Mitzrim, and to bring them up out
of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and
honey; to the place of the Kana`ani, the Hittite, the Amori, the
Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi. {3:9} Now, behold, the cry of the
children of Yisra'el has come to me. Moreover I have seen the
oppression with which the Mitzrim oppress them. {3:10} Come now
therefore, and I will send you to Par`oh, that you may bring forth my
people, the children of Yisra'el, out of Mitzrayim."
{3:11} Moshe said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Par`oh, and
that I should bring forth the children of Yisra'el out of Mitzrayim?"
{3:12} He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the
token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the
people out of Mitzrayim, you shall serve God on this mountain."
{3:13} Moshe said to God, "Behold, when I come to the children of
Yisra'el, and tell them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you;'
and they ask me, 'What is his name?' What should I tell them?"
{3:14} God said to Moshe, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "You shall
tell the children of Yisra'el this: "I AM has sent me to you." {3:15}
God said moreover to Moshe, "You shall tell the children of Yisra'el
this, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, the God
of Yitzchak, and the God of Ya`akov, has sent me to you.' This is my
name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations. {3:16} Go,
and gather the Zakenim of Yisra'el together, and tell them, 'The LORD,
the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, of Yitzchak, and of
Ya`akov, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you, and
seen that which is done to you in Mitzrayim; {3:17} and I have said, I
will bring you up out of the affliction of Mitzrayim to the land of
the Kana`ani, the Hittite, the Amori, the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the
Yevusi, to a land flowing with milk and honey."' {3:18} They will
listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the Zakenim of
Yisra'el, to the king of Mitzrayim, and you shall tell him, 'The LORD,
the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three
days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD,
our God.' {3:19} I know that the king of Mitzrayim won't give you
permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand. {3:20} I will put forth my
hand and strike Mitzrayim with all my wonders which I will do in the
midst of it, and after that he will let you go. {3:21} I will give
this people favor in the sight of the Mitzrim, and it will happen that
when you go, you shall not go empty-handed. {3:22} But every woman
shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who sojourns in her house,
jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them
on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall despoil the Mitzrim.
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Footnotes:
[1] {2:3} pitch
[2] {2:16} priest
[1] {3:1} priest
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