1. During this time a man from the tribe of Levi married a woman of his own tribe,
2. and she bore him a son. When she saw what a fine baby he was, she hid him for three months.
3. But when she could not hide him any longer, she took a basket made of reeds and covered it with tar to make it watertight. She put the baby in it and then placed it in the tall grass at the edge of the river.
4. The baby's sister stood some distance away to see what would happen to him.
5. The king's daughter came down to the river to bathe, while her servants walked along the bank. Suddenly she noticed the basket in the tall grass and sent a slave woman to get it.
6. The princess opened it and saw a baby boy. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
7. Then his sister asked her, “Shall I go and call a Hebrew woman to act as a wet nurse?”
8. “Please do,” she answered. So the girl went and brought the baby's own mother.
15-16. When the king heard about what had happened, he tried to have Moses killed, but Moses fled and went to live in the land of Midian.One day, when Moses was sitting by a well, seven daughters of Jethro, the priest of Midian, came to draw water and fill the troughs for their father's sheep and goats.