Esodo 2

NOVA VULGATA	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Egressus est vir de domo Levi et accepit uxorem stirpis suae;	1 Now a certain man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
2 quae concepit et peperit filium et videns eum elegantem abscondit tribus mensibus.	2 who conceived and bore a son. Seeing that he was a goodly child, she hid him for three months.
3 Cumque iam celare non posset, sumpsit fiscellam scirpeam et linivit eam bitumine ac pice; posuitque intus infantulum et exposuit eum in carecto ripae fluminis,	3 When she could hide him no longer, she took a papyrus basket, daubed it with bitumen and pitch, and putting the child in it, placed it among the reeds on the river bank.
4 stante procul sorore eius et considerante eventum rei.	4 His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him.
5 Ecce autem descendebat filia pharaonis, ut lavaretur in flumine, et puellae eius gradiebantur per crepidinem alvei. Quae cum vidisset fiscellam in papyrione, misit unam e famulabus suis; et allatam	5 Pharaoh's daughter came down to the river to bathe, while her maids walked along the river bank. Noticing the basket among the reeds, she sent her handmaid to fetch it.
6 aperiens cernensque in ea parvulum vagientem, miserta eius ait: “ De infantibus Hebraeorum est hic ”.	6 On opening it, she looked, and lo, there was a baby boy, crying! She was moved with pity for him and said, "It is one of the Hebrews' children."
7 Cui soror pueri: “ Vis, inquit, ut vadam et vocem tibi mulierem Hebraeam, quae nutrire possit tibi infantulum? ”.	7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?"
8 Respondit: “ Vade ”. Perrexit puella et vocavit matrem infantis.	8 "Yes, do so," she answered. So the maiden went and called the child's own mother.
9 Ad quam locuta filia pharaonis: “ Accipe, ait, puerum istum et nutri mihi; ego dabo tibi mercedem tuam ”. Suscepit mulier et nutrivit puerum adultumque tradidit filiae pharaonis.	9 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will repay you." The woman therefore took the child and nursed it.
10 Quem illa adoptavit in locum filii vocavitque nomen eius Moysen dicens: “ Quia de aqua tuli eum ”.	10 When the child grew, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him as her son and called him Moses; for she said, "I drew him out of the water."
11 In diebus illis, postquam creverat, Moyses egressus est ad fratres suos; viditque afflictionem eorum et virum Aegyptium percutientem quendam de Hebraeis fratribus suis.	11 On one occasion, after Moses had grown up, when he visited his kinsmen and witnessed their forced labor, he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his own kinsmen.
12 Cumque circumspexisset huc atque illuc et nullum adesse vidisset, percussum Aegyptium abscondit sabulo.	12 Looking about and seeing no one, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
13 Et egressus die altero conspexit duos Hebraeos rixantes dixitque ei, qui faciebat iniuriam: “ Quare percutis proximum tuum? ”.	13 The next day he went out again, and now two Hebrews were fighting! So he asked the culprit, "Why are you striking your fellow Hebrew?"
14 Qui respondit: “ Quis te constituit principem et iudicem super nos? Num occidere me tu vis, sicut occidisti Aegyptium? ”. Timuit Moyses et ait: “ Quomodo palam factum est verbum istud? ”.	14 But he replied, "Who has appointed you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses became afraid and thought, "The affair must certainly be known."
15 Audivitque pharao sermonem hunc et quaerebat occidere Moysen. Qui fugiens de conspectu eius moratus est in terra Madian; venit ergo in terram Madian et sedit iuxta puteum.	15 Pharaoh, too, heard of the affair and sought to put him to death. But Moses fled from him and stayed in the land of Midian. As he was seated there by a well,
16 Erant autem sacerdoti Madian septem filiae, quae venerunt ad hauriendam aquam; et impletis canalibus adaquare cupiebant greges patris sui.	16 seven daughters of a priest of Midian came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.
17 Supervenere pastores et eiecerunt eas: surrexitque Moyses et, defensis puellis, adaquavit oves earum.	17 But some shepherds came and drove them away. Then Moses got up and defended them and watered their flock.
18 Quae cum revertissent ad Raguel patrem suum, dixit ad eas: “ Cur velocius venistis solito? ”.	18 When they returned to their father Reuel, he said to them, "How is it you have returned so soon today?"
19 Responderunt: “ Vir Aegyptius liberavit nos de manu pastorum; insuper et hausit aquam nobis potumque dedit ovibus ”.	19 They answered, "An Egyptian saved us from the interference of the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock!"
20 At ille: “ Ubi est? ”, inquit. “ Quare dimisistis hominem? Vocate eum, ut comedat panem ”.	20 "Where is the man?" he asked his daughters. "Why did you leave him there? Invite him to have something to eat."
21 Consensit ergo Moyses habitare cum eo accepitque Sephoram filiam eius uxorem.	21 Moses agreed to live with him, and the man gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage.
22 Quae peperit ei filium, quem vocavit Gersam dicens: “ Advena sum in terra aliena ”.	22 She bore him a son, whom he named Gershom; for he said, "I am a stranger in a foreign land."
23 Post multum vero temporis mortuus est rex Aegypti; et ingemiscentes filii Israel propter opera vociferati sunt, ascenditque clamor eorum ad Deum ab operibus.	23 A long time passed, during which the king of Egypt died. Still the Israelites groaned and cried out because of their slavery. As their cry for release went up to God,
24 Et audivit gemitum eorum ac recordatus est foederis, quod pepigit cum Abraham, Isaac et Iacob;	24 he heard their groaning and was mindful of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
25 et respexit Dominus filios Israel et apparuit eis.	25 He saw the Israelites and knew. . . .