Exodus 2:1

CHAPTER II

Amram and Jochebed marry, 1.

Moses is born, and is hidden by his mother three months, 2.

Is exposed in an ark of bulrushes on the riser Nile, and watched

by his sister, 3, 4.

He is found by the daughter of Pharaoh, who commits him to the

care of his own mother, and has him educated as her own son, 5-9.

When grown up, he is brought to Pharaoh's daughter, who receives

him as her own child, and calls him Moses, 10.

Finding an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, he kills the Egyptian, and

hides him in the sand, 11, 12.

Reproves two Hebrews that were contending together, one of whom

charges him with killing the Egyptian, 13, 14.

Pharaoh, hearing of the death of the Egyptian, sought to slay

Moses, who, being alarmed, escapes to the land of Midian, 15.

Meets with the seven daughters of Reuel, priest or prince of Midian,

who came to water their flocks, and assists them, 16, 17.

On their return they inform their father Reuel, who invites Moses

to his house, 18-20.

Moses dwells with him, and receives Zipporah his daughter to wife, 21.

She bears him a son whom he calls Gershom, 22.

The children of Israel, grievously oppressed in Egypt, cry for

deliverance, 23.

God remembers his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and

hears their prayer, 24, 25.

NOTES ON CHAP. II

Verse Exodus 2:1. There went a man] Amram, son of Kohath, son of Levi, Exodus 6:16-2. A daughter of Levi, Jochebed, sister to Kohath, and consequently both the wife and aunt of her husband Amram, Exodus 6:20; Numbers 26:59. Such marriages were at this time lawful, though they were afterwards forbidden, Leviticus 18:12. But it is possible that daughter of Levi means no more than a descendant of that family, and that probably Amram and Jochebed were only cousin germans. As a new law was to be given and a new priesthood formed, God chose a religious family out of which the lawgiver and the high priest were both to spring.