Exodus 2

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	SMITH VAN DYKE
1 Now a certain man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,	1 وذهب رجل من بيت لاوي واخذ بنت لاوي.
2 who conceived and bore a son. Seeing that he was a goodly child, she hid him for three months.	2 فحبلت المرأة وولدت ابنا. ولما رأته انه حسن خبأته ثلاثة اشهر.
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.	3 ولما لم يمكنها ان تخبئه بعد اخذت له سفطا من البردي وطلته بالحمر والزفت ووضعت الولد فيه ووضعته بين الحلفاء على حافة النهر.
4 His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him.	4 ووقفت اخته من بعيد لتعرف ماذا يفعل به
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.	5 فنزلت ابنة فرعون الى النهر لتغتسل وكانت جواريها ماشيات على جانب النهر. فرأت السفط بين الحلفاء فارسلت أمتها واخذته.
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."	6 ولما فتحته رأت الولد واذا هو صبي يبكي. فرقّت له وقالت هذا من اولاد العبرانيين.
7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?"	7 فقالت اخته لابنة فرعون هل اذهب وادعو لك امرأة مرضعة من العبرانيات لترضع لك الولد.
8 "Yes, do so," she answered. So the maiden went and called the child's own mother.	8 فقالت لها ابنة فرعون اذهبي. فذهبت الفتاة ودعت ام الولد.
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.	9 فقالت لها ابنة فرعون اذهبي بهذا الولد وارضعيه لي وانا اعطي اجرتك. فاخذت المرأة الولد وارضعته.
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."	10 ولما كبر الولد جاءت به الى ابنة فرعون فصار لها ابنا. ودعت اسمه موسى وقالت اني انتشلته من الماء
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.	11 وحدث في تلك الايام لما كبر موسى انه خرج الى اخوته لينظر في اثقالهم. فرأى رجلا مصريا يضرب رجلا عبرانيا من اخوته.
12 Looking about and seeing no one, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.	12 فالتفت الى هنا وهناك ورأى ان ليس احد فقتل المصري وطمره في الرمل.
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?"	13 ثم خرج في اليوم الثاني واذا رجلان عبرانيان يتخاصمان. فقال للمذنب لماذا تضرب صاحبك.
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."	14 فقال من جعلك رئيسا وقاضيا علينا. أمفتكر انت بقتلي كما قتلت المصري. فخاف موسى وقال حقا قد عرف الامر.
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,	15 فسمع فرعون هذا الامر فطلب ان يقتل موسى. فهرب موسى من وجه فرعون وسكن في ارض مديان وجلس عند البئر
16 seven daughters of a priest of Midian came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.	16 وكان لكاهن مديان سبع بنات. فاتين واستقين وملأن الاجران ليسقين غنم ابيهنّ.
17 But some shepherds came and drove them away. Then Moses got up and defended them and watered their flock.	17 فاتى الرعاة وطردوهنّ فنهض موسى وانجدهنّ وسقى غنمهنّ.
18 When they returned to their father Reuel, he said to them, "How is it you have returned so soon today?"	18 فلما اتين الى رعوئيل ابيهنّ قال ما بالكنّ اسرعتنّ في المجيء اليوم.
19 They answered, "An Egyptian saved us from the interference of the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock!"	19 فقلن رجل مصري انقذنا من ايدي الرعاة وانه استقى لنا ايضا وسقى الغنم.
20 "Where is the man?" he asked his daughters. "Why did you leave him there? Invite him to have something to eat."	20 فقال لبناته واين هو. لماذا تركتنّ الرجل. ادعونه لياكل طعاما.
21 Moses agreed to live with him, and the man gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage.	21 فارتضى موسى ان يسكن مع الرجل. فاعطى موسى صفورة ابنته.
22 She bore him a son, whom he named Gershom; for he said, "I am a stranger in a foreign land."	22 فولدت ابنا فدعا اسمه جرشوم. لانه قال كنت نزيلا في ارض غريبة
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,	23 وحدث في تلك الايام الكثيرة ان ملك مصر مات. وتنهّد بنو اسرائيل من العبودية وصرخوا. فصعد صراخهم الى الله من اجل العبودية.
24 he heard their groaning and was mindful of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.	24 فسمع الله انينهم فتذّكر الله ميثاقه مع ابراهيم واسحق ويعقوب.
25 He saw the Israelites and knew. . . .	25 ونظر الله بني اسرائيل وعلم الله