¹Zvino mumwe murume weimba yavaRevhi akawana mukunda wavaRevhi.

¹A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.

²Mukadzi akava nemimba, akabereka mwanakomana; zvino akati achiona kuti mwana akanaka, akamuvanza mwedzi mitatu.

²The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

³Akati asisagoni kumuvanza, akamutorera tswanda yenhokwe, akainamira nebhitumini nenamo, akaisa mwana mukati mayo, akaigadzika pakati petsanga pamahombekombe erwizi.

³When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

⁴Hanzvadzi yake ikandomira kure zvishoma, kuti azive zvichaitwa naye.

⁴His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.

⁵Zvino mukunda waFarao akaburuka kundoshamba murwizi, vasikana vake vakafamba-famba pamahombekombe erwizi; iye akaona tswanda pakati petsanga, ndokutuma musikana wake kundoitora.

⁵Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.

⁶Akaizarura, akona mwana, mwana wechikomana, onei anochema. Akamunzwira tsitsi, akati, Ndomumwe wavana vavaHebheru.

⁶She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

⁷Ipapo hanzvadzi yake yakati kumukunda waFarao, Ko handingaendi ndikakudanirai mumwisi kuvakadzi vavaHebheru, kuti akumwisirei mwana here?

⁷Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”

⁸Mukunda waFarao akati kwaari, Enda. Musikana akaenda, akandodana mai vomwana.

⁸Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The maiden went and called the child’s mother.

⁹Mukunda waFarao akati kwavari, Tora mwana uyu, undimwisire ndigokupa mubairo wako. Mukadzi akatora mwana, akandomuyamwisa.

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

¹⁰Mwana akakura, akandomuisa kumukunda waFarao, akava mwanakomana wake, akamutumidza zita rinonzi Mozisi, akati, Nokuti, ndamunyukura mumvura.

¹⁰The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Moses” sounds like the Hebrew for “draw out”. and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

¹¹Zvino namazuva iwayo Mozisi akura, akaenda kundoona hama dzake, akandotarira mirimo yavo; akaona muEgipita achirova muHebheru, mumwe wehama dzake.

¹¹It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

¹²Akaringa-ringa, zvino achiona kuti hapana munhu aripo, akauraya muEgipita, akamuviga mujecha.

¹²He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

¹³Akabudazve nezuva rechipiri, akaona varume vaviri vaHebheru vachirwa; akati kuna iye waiva nemhosva, Unorovereiko munhu wokwako?

¹³He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”

¹⁴Iye akati, Ndianiko akakuita ishe nomutongi wedu? Unoda kundiuraya ini sezvawakauraya uya muEgipita kanhi? Mozisi akatya, akati, Zvirokwazvo, chinhu ichi chazikamwa.

¹⁴He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”

¹⁵Zvino Farao akati anzwa chinhu icho, akatsvaka kuuraya Mozisi. Asi Mozisi akatiza pamberi paFarao, akandogara kunyika yeMidhiani, akagara pasi patsime.

¹⁵Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

¹⁶Zvino mupristi weMidhiani akanga ana vakunda vanomwe; ivo vakauya kuzochera mvura, vakazadza zvimwiro, kuti vamwise makwai ababa vavo.

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

¹⁷Vafudzi vakauya, vakavadzingapo, asi Mozisi akasimuka, akavabatsira, akamwisa makwai avo.

¹⁷The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

¹⁸Zvino vakati vachisvika kuna Rueri, baba vavo, ivo vakati, Makurumidza kudzoka seiko nhasi?

¹⁸When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”

¹⁹Vakati, MuEgipita akatirwira pamaoko avafudzi, akaticherera mvura, akamwisa makwai.

¹⁹They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”

²⁰Akati kuvakunda vake, Zvino aripiko? Munhu uyu mamusiirei? Mudanei, adye zvokudya.

²⁰He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”

²¹Mozisi akatenda kugara nomunhu uyo; akapa Mozisi mukunda wake Zipora.

²¹Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

²²Akabereka mwanakomana, akamutumidza zita rinonzi Geshomi, nekuti akati, Ndakanga ndiri mutorwa munyika yavamwe.

²²She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there.” for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

²³Zvino mazuva mazhinji akati apfuura, mambo weEgipita akafa, vana vaIsiraeri vakagomera nokuda kouranda hwavo, vakadanidzira, kudanidzira kwavo kukasvika kuna Mwari nokuda kouranda.

²³It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

²⁴Mwari akanzwa kugomba kwavo, Mwari akarangarira sungano yake naAbhurahamu, naIsaka, naJakove.

²⁴God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

²⁵Mwari akaona vana vaIsiraeri, Mwari akavarangarira.

²⁵God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.