2:1 After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of his own kindred.

2:1 egressus est post haec vir de domo Levi accepta uxore stirpis suae

2:2 And she conceived, and bore a son: and seeing him a goodly child, hid him three months.

2:2 quae concepit et peperit filium et videns eum elegantem abscondit tribus mensibus

2:3 And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,

2:3 cumque iam celare non posset sumpsit fiscellam scirpeam et linivit eam bitumine ac pice posuitque intus infantulum et exposuit eum in carecto ripae fluminis

2:4 His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.

2:4 stante procul sorore eius et considerante eventum rei

2:5 And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought,

2:5 ecce autem descendebat filia Pharaonis ut lavaretur in flumine et puellae eius gradiebantur per crepidinem alvei quae cum vidisset fiscellam in papyrione misit unam e famulis suis et adlatam

2:6 She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.

2:6 aperiens cernensque in ea parvulum vagientem miserta eius ait de infantibus Hebraeorum est

2:7 And the child's sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?

2:7 cui soror pueri vis inquit ut vadam et vocem tibi hebraeam mulierem quae nutrire possit infantulum

2:8 She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.

2:8 respondit vade perrexit puella et vocavit matrem eius

2:9 And Pharao's daughter said to her: Take this child, and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao's daughter.

2:9 ad quam locuta filia Pharaonis accipe ait puerum istum et nutri mihi ego tibi dabo mercedem tuam suscepit mulier et nutrivit puerum adultumque tradidit filiae Pharaonis

2:10 And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.

2:10 quem illa adoptavit in locum filii vocavitque nomen eius Mosi dicens quia de aqua tuli eum

2:11 In those days, after Moses was grown up, he went out to his brethren: and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking one of the Hebrews, his brethren.

2:11 in diebus illis postquam creverat Moses egressus ad fratres suos vidit adflictionem eorum et virum aegyptium percutientem quendam de Hebraeis fratribus suis

2:12 And when he had looked about this way and that way, and saw no one there, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

2:12 cumque circumspexisset huc atque illuc et nullum adesse vidisset percussum Aegyptium abscondit sabulo

2:13 And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?

2:13 et egressus die altero conspexit duos Hebraeos rixantes dixitque ei qui faciebat iniuriam quare percutis proximum tuum

2:14 But he answered: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us? wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian? Moses feared, and said: How is this come to be known?

2:14 qui respondit quis constituit te principem et iudicem super nos num occidere me tu dicis sicut occidisti Aegyptium timuit Moses et ait quomodo palam factum est verbum istud

2:15 And Pharao heard of this word, and sought to kill Moses: but he fled from his sight, and abode in the land of Madian, and he sat down by a well.

2:15 audivitque Pharao sermonem hunc et quaerebat occidere Mosen qui fugiens de conspectu eius moratus est in terra Madian et sedit iuxta puteum

2:16 And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw water: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water their father's flocks.

2:16 erant sacerdoti Madian septem filiae quae venerunt ad hauriendas aquas et impletis canalibus adaquare cupiebant greges patris sui

2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses arose, and defending the maids, watered their sheep.

2:17 supervenere pastores et eiecerunt eas surrexitque Moses et defensis puellis adaquavit oves earum

2:18 quae cum revertissent ad Raguhel patrem suum dixit ad eas cur velocius venistis solito

2:19 They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the shepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink.

2:19 responderunt vir aegyptius liberavit nos de manu pastorum insuper et hausit aquam nobiscum potumque dedit ovibus

2:20 But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread.

2:20 at ille ubi est inquit quare dimisistis hominem vocate eum ut comedat panem

2:21 And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:

2:21 iuravit ergo Moses quod habitaret cum eo accepitque Sefforam filiam eius

2:22 And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.

2:22 quae peperit filium quem vocavit Gersam dicens advena fui in terra aliena

2:23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.

2:23 post multum temporis mortuus est rex Aegypti et ingemescentes filii Israhel propter opera vociferati sunt ascenditque clamor eorum ad Deum ab operibus

2:24 And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

2:24 et audivit gemitum eorum ac recordatus foederis quod pepigerat cum Abraham et Isaac et Iacob

2:25 And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them.

2:25 respexit filios Israhel et cognovit eos