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The Book of Exodus, Chapter 2, Verse 1

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And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
King James Version
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took [to wife] a daughter of Levi.
American Standard Version
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
New English Translation
The Birth of the Deliverer A man from the household of Levi married a woman who was a descendant of Levi.
World English Bible
A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.
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And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he [was a] goodly [child], she hid him three months.
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And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river's brink.
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And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash [herself] at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
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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 the Hebrews' children.
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Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
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And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
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And Pharaoh'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.
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And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
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And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.