{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "exodus", "chapter": 2 }, "data": { "n": 2, "bookSlug": "exodus", "bookCode": "EXO", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "EXO-2:1", "verseRef": "Exod.2.1", "text": "And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "EXO-2:2", "verseRef": "Exod.2.2", "text": "And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "EXO-2:3", "verseRef": "Exod.2.3", "text": "And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river`s brink." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "EXO-2:4", "verseRef": "Exod.2.4", "text": "And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "EXO-2:5", "verseRef": "Exod.2.5", "text": "And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "EXO-2:6", "verseRef": "Exod.2.6", "text": "And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews` children." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "EXO-2:7", "verseRef": "Exod.2.7", "text": "Then said his sister to Pharaoh`s daughter, Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "EXO-2:8", "verseRef": "Exod.2.8", "text": "And Pharaoh`s daughter said to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child`s mother." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "EXO-2:9", "verseRef": "Exod.2.9", "text": "And Pharaoh`s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "EXO-2:10", "verseRef": "Exod.2.10", "text": "And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh`s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "EXO-2:11", "verseRef": "Exod.2.11", "text": "And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "EXO-2:12", "verseRef": "Exod.2.12", "text": "And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "EXO-2:13", "verseRef": "Exod.2.13", "text": "And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "EXO-2:14", "verseRef": "Exod.2.14", "text": "And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "EXO-2:15", "verseRef": "Exod.2.15", "text": "Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "EXO-2:16", "verseRef": "Exod.2.16", "text": "Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father`s flock." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "EXO-2:17", "verseRef": "Exod.2.17", "text": "And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "EXO-2:18", "verseRef": "Exod.2.18", "text": "And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "EXO-2:19", "verseRef": "Exod.2.19", "text": "And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "EXO-2:20", "verseRef": "Exod.2.20", "text": "And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "EXO-2:21", "verseRef": "Exod.2.21", "text": "And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "EXO-2:22", "verseRef": "Exod.2.22", "text": "And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "EXO-2:23", "verseRef": "Exod.2.23", "text": "And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "EXO-2:24", "verseRef": "Exod.2.24", "text": "And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "EXO-2:25", "verseRef": "Exod.2.25", "text": "And God saw the children of Israel, and God took knowledge [of them]." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/exodus/chapters/2", "book": "/v1/library/books/exodus/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/exodus/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }