Exodus 2:9-11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁹ Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.’ So the woman took the boy and nursed him. ¹⁰ When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,^[a] ‘Because,’ she said, ‘I drew him out of the water.’

Moses in Midian

¹¹ Years later,^[b] after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people^[c] and observed their forced labour.^(A) He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people.