7. Then the baby’s sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, "Would you like me to go and find one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?"
8. Pharaoh’s daughter agreed, "Yes, do that." So the girl went and called the child’s mother.
9. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse it for me, and I’ll pay you for your work." So the woman took the child and nursed it.
10. After the child had grown up, she brought him back to Pharaoh’s daughter, who adopted him as her son. She named him Moses, "because," she said, "I pulled him out of the water."
11. One day after Moses had become an adult, he went out among his people and he saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
12. He looked around to make sure no one else was there. Then he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
13. When Moses went out the next day, he saw two Hebrew men fighting with each other. Moses said to the one who had started the fight, "Why are you abusing your fellow Hebrew?"
14. He replied, "Who made you a boss or judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?"Then Moses was afraid when he realized: They obviously know what I did.
15. When Pharaoh heard about it, he tried to kill Moses.But Moses ran away from Pharaoh and settled down in the land of Midian. One day Moses was sitting by a well.
16. Now there was a Midianite priest who had seven daughters. The daughters came to draw water and fill the troughs so that their father’s flock could drink.
17. But some shepherds came along and rudely chased them away. Moses got up, rescued the women, and gave their flock water to drink.
18. When they went back home to their father Reuel, he asked, "How were you able to come back home so soon today?"
19. They replied, "An Egyptian man rescued us from a bunch of shepherds. Afterward, he even helped us draw water to let the flock drink."