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11 And in those dayes, when Moyses was waxed great, he went out vnto his brethren, & loked on their burdens, and spyed an Egyptian smytyng an Hebrue which was one of his brethren. 12 And he loked rounde about, and when he sawe no man by, he slewe the Egyptian, and hyd hym in the sande. 13 And when he was gone out another day, beholde, two men of the Hebrues stroue together: And he saide vnto him that dyd the wrong, Wherefore smytest thou thy felowe? 14 He aunswered: Who made thee a man of aucthoritie and a iudge ouer vs? intendest thou to kyll me, as thou kylledst the Egyptian? And Moyses feared and sayde: Of a suretie this thyng is knowen. 15 And Pharao heard of it, and went about to slaye Moyses. And Moyses fleyng from the face of Pharao, dwelt in the lande of Madian: and he sate downe by the welles syde. 16 The priest of Madian had vij. daughters, which came and drewe water and filled the troughes for to water their fathers sheepe. 17 And the shepheardes came and droue them away: but Moyses stoode vp and helped them, and watred their sheepe. 18 And when they came to Raguel their father, he sayde: Howe came it to passe that ye are come so soone to day? 19 And they aunswered: A man of Egypt deliuered vs from the handes of the shepheardes, and so drewe vs water, and watered the sheepe. 20 He saide vnto his daughters: & where is he? why haue ye so left the man? Call hym, that he may eate bread. 21 And Moyses was content to dwell with the man: & he gaue Moyses Sephora his daughter: 22 Which bare him a sonne, and he called his name Gershom: For he saide, I haue ben a straunger in a straunge land. 23 And in processe of tyme the kyng of Egypt dyed, and the chyldren of Israel syghed by the reason of bondage, and cryed. 24 And their complaynt came vp vnto God from the bondage: and God heard their mone, and God remembred his couenaunt with Abraham, Isahac, and Iacob. 25 And God loked vpon the chyldren of Israel, and God had respecte vnto them. Exodus 2:11-25, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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