Exodus

Chapter 2

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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.

A dotted word is a harder one. Point at it, or tap it, for a short definition.

1A man from the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi.

2The woman conceived and bore a son. She saw that he was good, and she hid him for three months.

3When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus box for him, smeared it with tar and with pitch, put the child in it, and set it in the reeds at the bank of the Nile.

Notes (1)

Translation
Tevah is a box, the same word as the box Noah built. “Ark” is not printed. Gome is papyrus. Suf are reeds.

4His sister stood at a distance, to know what would be done to him.

5Pharaoh’s daughter came down to wash at the Nile. Her young women walked along the Nile. She saw the box among the reeds, sent her servant, and she took it.

Notes (1)

Translation
Amatah is pointed in this copy as “her servant.” The same consonants can be read “her arm.” The pointing is followed. “She stretched out her arm” is the live alternative, and it is not printed.

6She opened it and saw him, the child. There was a boy, crying. She pitied him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

7His sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nursing woman from the Hebrew women for you, so she can nurse the child for you?”

8Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The girl went and called the child’s mother.

9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will give your wages.” The woman took the child and nursed him.

10The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and she said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

Notes (1)

Translation
The name is Moshe. The line explains it with mashah, “I drew him out.” That is the explanation this verse gives. No other origin of the name is added.

11In those days Moses grew up. He went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man, one of his brothers.

12He looked this way and that, saw that there was no one, struck the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

13He went out the next day, and two Hebrew men were fighting. He said to the one in the wrong, “Why are you striking your fellow?”

14He said, “Who set you as a chief and a judge over us? Are you saying you will kill me, the way you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid and said, “Surely the thing is known.”

15Pharaoh heard of this thing and tried to kill Moses. Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down by the well.

16The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came, drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

17The shepherds came and drove them off. Moses stood up, saved them, and watered their flock.

18They came to Reuel their father. He said, “Why have you come back so soon today?”

19They said, “An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds’ hand. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

20He said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why did you leave the man? Call him, so he can eat bread.”

21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.

22She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, because he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

Notes (1)

Translation
Ger is a sojourner, a resident outsider. The name Gershom is explained by that word in this verse. No second son is named here.

23In those many days the king of Egypt died. The sons of Israel groaned because of the work, and they cried out. Their cry for help rose to God because of the work.

24God heard their groaning. God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Notes (1)

Translation
Berit is printed “covenant.” That is the project-wide word. See the glossary.

25God saw the sons of Israel, and God knew.

Notes (1)

Text
The verb “knew” has no object in Leningrad. Nothing is supplied. The Greek turns it into “he was known to them.” That wording is not printed.

Exodus

Chapter 2

A dotted word is a harder one. Point at it, or tap it, for a short definition.

1A man from the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi.

2The woman conceived and bore a son. She saw that he was good, and she hid him for three months.

3When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus box for him, smeared it with tar and with pitch, put the child in it, and set it in the reeds at the bank of the Nile.

Notes (1)

Translation
Tevah is a box, the same word as the box Noah built. “Ark” is not printed. Gome is papyrus. Suf are reeds.

4His sister stood at a distance, to know what would be done to him.

5Pharaoh’s daughter came down to wash at the Nile. Her young women walked along the Nile. She saw the box among the reeds, sent her servant, and she took it.

Notes (1)

Translation
Amatah is pointed in this copy as “her servant.” The same consonants can be read “her arm.” The pointing is followed. “She stretched out her arm” is the live alternative, and it is not printed.

6She opened it and saw him, the child. There was a boy, crying. She pitied him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

7His sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nursing woman from the Hebrew women for you, so she can nurse the child for you?”

8Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The girl went and called the child’s mother.

9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will give your wages.” The woman took the child and nursed him.

10The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and she said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

Notes (1)

Translation
The name is Moshe. The line explains it with mashah, “I drew him out.” That is the explanation this verse gives. No other origin of the name is added.