These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Exodus 2
Tanakh 25 verses
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And there went a man of the house of , and took to wife a daughter of .
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And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
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And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an 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.
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And his sister stood afar off, to what would be done to him.
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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.
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And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept. And she had compassion on him, and said: ‘This is one of the Hebrews’ children.’
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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?’
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And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her: ‘Go.’ And the maiden went and called the child’s mother.
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- 9 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.
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And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his , and said: ‘Because I drew him out of the water.’
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And it came to pass in those days, when 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.
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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.
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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?’
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- 14 And he said: ‘Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?’ And feared, and said: ‘Surely the thing is known.’
- 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay . But fled from the of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.
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Now the of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
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And the shepherds came and drove them away; but stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
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And when they came to Reuel their father, he said: ‘How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?’
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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.’
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- 20 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.’
- 21 And was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Zipporah his daughter.
- 22 And she bore a son, and he called his Gershom; for he said: ‘I have been a stranger in a strange land.’
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And it came to pass in the course of those many days that the of died; and the children of sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto by reason of the bondage.
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James 5:4 Acts 7:30 Genesis 18:20-21 Acts 12:23-24 Deuteronomy 26:6-7 Exodus 3:7-9 Genesis 4:10 Psalm 81:6-7 Nehemiah 9:9 Psalm 107:19-20 Psalm 18:6 Matthew 2:19-20 Judges 10:11-12 Isaiah 5:7 Isaiah 19:20 Exodus 22:22-27 Genesis 16:11 Numbers 20:16 Exodus 4:19 Exodus 7:7 Deuteronomy 24:15 Psalm 12:5 -
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And heard their groaning, and remembered His with , with , and with .
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And saw the children of , and took cognizance of them.
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