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

¹Odide pa mož iz hiše Levijeve in si vzame hčer Levijevo.

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

²In žena spočne ter rodi sina, in ko vidi, da je lep, ga skriva tri mesece.

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.

³In ko ga ni mogla dalje skrivati, vzame zanj pletenico iz papirovega trstja in jo zamaže z ilovico in s smolo, potem položi dečka vanjo in jo dene v ločje na Nilovem bregu.

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

⁴Njegova sestra pa se postavi oddaleč, da bi videla, kaj se bo ž njim zgodilo.

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.

⁵In pride doli hči Faraonova kopat se v reki; in njene dekle se izprehajajo poleg reke. In zagleda pletenico sredi ločja in pošlje svojo deklo, da jo prinese.

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.”

⁶Ko jo pa odpre, vidi dete, in glej, deček joče. In stori se ji milo in reče: Izmed otrok Hebrejcev je ta.

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?”

⁷In sestra njegova reče hčeri Faraonovi: Ali naj grem in ti pokličem ženo dojnico izmed Hebrejk, da ti odgoji to dete?

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

⁸In hči Faraonova ji veli: Pojdi! In deklica gre in pokliče otrokovo mater.

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.

⁹In hči Faraonova ji veli: Vzemi tega otročička in odgoji mi ga, in dam ti plačilo tvoje. In žena vzame otroka, in ga je vzgajala.

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.”

¹⁰In ko je deček odrastel, ga je privedla k hčeri Faraonovi. In bil ji je za sina in imenovala je ime njegovo Mojzes, rekoč: Ker sem ga potegnila iz vode.

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.

¹¹In zgodi se v tistih dnevih, da pride Mojzes, ko je bil že velik, k bratom svojim in gleda njih težaško delo; in vidi moža Egipčana, da tepe moža Hebrejca, izmed bratov njegovih.

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.

¹²In ozre se sem in tja, in ko vidi, da ni nikogar blizu, ubije Egipčana in ga zagrebe v pesek.

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?”

¹³In izide zopet drugi dan, in glej, dva moža, Hebrejca, se prepirata. In reče tistemu, ki je delal krivico: Zakaj tepeš bližnjega svojega?

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.”

¹⁴Ta pa reče: Kdo te je postavil za kneza in sodnika nam? Misliš li me umoriti, kakor si umoril Egipčana? Tedaj se Mojzes prestraši in reče: Gotovo se je zvedela ta stvar!

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.

¹⁵In Faraon, ko je začul o tem dogodku, je nameraval Mojzesa umoriti. A Mojzes pobegne izpred obličja Faraonovega, in je prebival v deželi Madianski; in usede se pri nekem studencu.

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

¹⁶Duhovnik madianski pa je imel sedmero hčera, ki so prišle zajemat vodo; in napolnile so korita, da bi napojile čredo očeta svojega.

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

¹⁷A pridejo pastirji in jih odženo. Mojzes pa vstane in jim pomaga in napoji njih čredo.

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

¹⁸In ko pridejo k Reguelu, očetu svojemu, jim reče: Zakaj ste se danes vrnile tako hitro?

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

¹⁹In odgovore: Mož Egipčan nas je rešil iz rok pastirjev in tudi nam zajel vode in napojil je čredo.

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

²⁰On pa reče hčeram svojim: In kje je on? zakaj ste popustile tistega moža? Pokličite ga, da jé z nami kruh!

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

²¹In Mojzes privoli, da ostane pri tem možu; ta pa da Mojzesu Ziforo, hčer svojo.

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.”

²²In ko porodi sina, imenuje on ime njegovo Gersom, kajti reče: Priseljenec sem v tuji zemlji.

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.

²³In zgodi se v mnogih tistih dnevih, da umrje egiptovski kralj. In sinovi Izraelovi so zdihovali zaradi tlake in vpili so, in njih vpitje od tlačanstva je prišlo k Bogu.

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

²⁴In uslišal je Bog njih stokanje, in spomnil se je Bog svoje zaveze z Abrahamom, z Izakom in z Jakobom.In Bog je pogledal na sinove Izraelove, in spoznal jih je Bog.

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

²⁵In Bog je pogledal na sinove Izraelove, in spoznal jih je Bog.