Torah Mosheh 2:

Shemot /  שׁמות

Exodus Chapter 2

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Birth of Mosheh:

Elohim prepares a deliverer

(Shemot 2:1-4:28)

2:1 And there went a man beit ha Levy, and took [to wife] a daughter of Levy.

2:2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he [was a] goodly [child], she hid him three months.

2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him a Tebah (ark) of papyrus (bulrushes), and daubed it with slime and with Zepheth (pitch), and put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river's brink.

2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

2:5 And the daughter of Paroh came down to wash [herself] at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the Tebah (ark) among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

2:6 And when she had opened [it], she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This [is one] of  yaldei (children) ha irvim ze.

2:7 Then said his sister to Paroh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the  ha Ivriyot (hebrews) Isha, that she may nurse the child for thee?

2:8 And Paroh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.

2:9 And Paroh'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.

2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Paroh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Mosheh: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

Mosheh identifies himself with Yisrael
rejected, he flees to Midyan

2:11 (iii) And it came to pass in those days, when Mosheh was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Mitzrites smiting a Ish Ivri, one of his brethren.

2:12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that [there was] no man, he slew the Mitzrites, and hid him in the sand.

2:13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

2:14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Mitzrites? And Mosheh feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

2:15 Now when Paroh heard this thing, he sought to slay Mosheh. But Mosheh fled from the face of Paroh, and dwelt in the land of Midyan: and he sat down by a well.

2:16 Now the Kohen Midyan had seven daughters: and they came and drew [water], and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Mosheh stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

2:18 And when they came to Re'u'el their father, he said, How [is it that] ye are come so soon to day?

2:19 And they said, A Mitzrites delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew [water] enough for us, and watered the flock.

2:20 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.

2:21 And Mosheh was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Mosheh Tzipporah his daughter.

2:22 And she bare [him] a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Mitzrayim died: and the benai Yisrael sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto Elohim by reason of the bondage.

2:24 And Elohim heard their groaning, and Elohim remembered his covenant with Avraham, with Yitz'chak , and with Yaakov.

2:25 And Elohim looked upon the benai Yisrael, and Elohim had respect unto [them].


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Papyrus  - Hebrew gomei גּמאrush, reed, papyrus is an early form of thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt. Papyrus usually grows 2–3 meters (5–9 ft) tall, although some have reached as high as 5 meters (15 ft). Papyrus is first known to have been used in ancient Egypt (at least as far back as the First dynasty), but it was also widely used throughout the Mediterranean region, as well as inland parts of Europe and southwest Asia.