Exodus 2:8-17

8Pharaoh’s daughter told her, “Go!” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.

9Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

10After the boy grew older she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. So she named him Moses saying, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

11Now it happened in those days, after Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He noticed an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

12So he looked around and when he saw that there was nobody, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

13Then he went out the following day, and saw two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the guilty one, “Why are you beating your companion?”

14But the man answered, “Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you saying you’re going to kill me—just as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “For sure the deed had become known.”

15When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down by a well.

16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters who came and drew water. They filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

17But shepherds came and drove them away, so Moses stood up, helped them and watered their flock.