The Birth of Moses
1Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 3But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket2:3 The Hebrew can also mean ark, as in Gen. 6:14. for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 4His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
5Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. 6She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
7Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
8“Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. 9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 10When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses,2:10 Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out. saying, “I drew him out of the water.”
Moses Flees to Midian
11One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
14The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”
15When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.
18When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
19They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
20“And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”
21Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 22Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,2:22 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for a foreigner there. saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
23During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.
Haihuwar Musa
1Ana nan, sai wani Balawe ya auri wata Balawiya, 2ta kuwa yi ciki, ta haifi ɗa. Sa’ad da ta ga jaririn kyakkyawa ne, sai ta ɓoye shi har watanni uku. 3Amma da ba tă iya ɓoye shi kuma ba, sai ta yi kwandon kyauro ta shafa masa kwalta. Bayan haka sai ta sa jaririn a cikin kwandon, ta je ta ajiye kwandon tare da jaririn a cikin kyauro, a bakin kogin. 4’Yar’uwarsa ta tsaya da ɗan rata tana lura da abin da zai faru da shi.
5Sai ’yar Fir’auna ta gangara zuwa kogi domin tă yi wanka, bayinta kuwa suna tafiya a bakin kogi. Sai ta ga kwandon a ciyawa, ta aiki ɗaya daga cikin masu hidimarta tă ɗauko mata. 6Da ta buɗe kwandon, sai ta ga yaro yana kuka, ta kuwa ji tausayinsa. Ta ce, “Wannan ɗaya daga cikin jariran Ibraniyawa ne.”
7Sai ’yar’uwarsa ta tambayi ’yar Fir’auna, ta ce, “In tafi in samo ɗaya daga cikin matan Ibraniyawa tă yi miki renon yaron?”
8Sai ta amsa ta ce, “I, tafi.” Sai yarinyar ta tafi ta kawo mahaifiyar yaron. 9Diyar Fir’auna ta ce mata, “Ɗauki jaririn, ki yi mini renonsa, zan kuwa biya ki.” Saboda haka ta ɗauki yaron, ta yi renonsa. 10Sa’ad da ya yi girma, sai ta kawo shi wajen ’yar Fir’auna, ya kuwa zama ɗanta, ta kuma ba shi suna Musa, tana cewa, “Na tsamo shi daga ruwa.”
Musa ya gudu zuwa Midiyan
11Wata rana, bayan Musa ya yi girma, sai ya haura, ya tafi inda mutanensa suke, ya kuma ga yadda suke shan wahala da aiki. Ya ga wani mutumin Masar yana dūkan mutumin Ibraniyawa, ɗaya daga cikin mutanensa. 12Da ya leƙa nan da can bai kuwa ga kowa ba, sai ya kashe mutumin Masar, ya ɓoye shi a yashi. 13Kashegari ya fita, sai ya ga Ibraniyawa biyu suna faɗa. Ya tambayi mai laifin ya ce, “Don me kake bugun ɗan’uwanka, mutumin Ibraniyawa?”
14Mutumin ya ce masa, “Wa ya mai da kai mai mulki da mai hukunci a kanmu? Kana so ne ka kashe ni kamar yadda ka kashe mutumin Masar nan?” Sai Musa ya tsorata, ya yi tunani ya ce, “To, fa, abin nan da na yi, ya zama sananne.”
15Da Fir’auna ya ji wannan, sai ya yi ƙoƙari yă kashe Musa, amma Musa ya gudu daga wajen Fir’auna, ya tafi ƙasar Midiyan inda ya zauna kusa da wata rijiya. 16To, fa, akwai wani firist na Midiyan, yana da ’ya’ya mata bakwai, suka zo su shayar da dabbobin mahaifinsu. 17Sai waɗansu makiyaya suka zo suka kore su, amma Musa ya tashi ya taimake su ya shayar da dabbobinsu.
18Da ’yan matan suka komo wurin Reyuwel mahaifinsu, sai ya tambaye su ya ce, “Yaya kuka dawo da wuri yau?”
19Suka amsa suka ce, “Wani mutumin Masar ne ya taimake mu daga hannun waɗansu makiyaya. Har ma ya ɗebo ruwa ya shayar da dabbobin.”
20Ya tambayi ’yan matansa, “To ina yake? Don me kuka bar shi a can? A gayyace shi, yă zo, yă ci wani abu.”
21Musa ya yarda yă zauna da mutumin wanda ya ba da ’yarsa Ziffora aure da Musa. 22Ziffora ta haifi wa Musa ɗa, ya kuma raɗa masa suna Gershom cewa, “Na zama baƙo a baƙuwar ƙasa.”
23Ana nan dai, a kwana a tashi, sai sarkin Masar ya mutu. Isra’ilawa suka yi kuka mai zafi saboda bautarsu mai wuya, sai kukar neman taimakonsu saboda bauta, ya kai wurin Allah. 24Allah kuwa ya ji kukansu sai ya tuna da alkawarinsa da Ibrahim da Ishaku da Yaƙub. 25Sai Allah ya dubi Isra’ilawa, ya kuma damu da su.
