Exodus 2:1-25 show how God use Pharaoh daughter take save Moses from death, wey later God use am deliver Israelites.
1. One man from di tribe of Levi marry one Levi woman.
2. Di woman come get belle, she born boy pikin, she see say di pikin fine well well, so she hide am for three months.
3. When she no fit hide am again, she carry basket wey dem make with papyrus, put tar and pitch inside, put di pikin inside, then she put di basket for di riverbank inside di reeds.
4. Di pikin sister stand for one corner dey look wetin go happen to di pikin.
5. One day, Pharaoh daughter come di river to baff. As her servant dem dey waka for di river side, she see di basket inside di water, she send one of her servant make she bring am.
6. When she open di basket, she see di small pikin wey dey cry, her mind touch am, she say, "Na one Hebrew pikin be dis."
7. Di pikin sister run go meet Pharaoh daughter say, "Make I go call one Hebrew woman wey go help you take care of di pikin?"
8. Pharaoh daughter say, "Yes, go!" So di girl go call di pikin mama.
9. Pharaoh daughter tell di woman say, "Take dis pikin go, take care of am for me, I go pay you." So di woman carry her pikin go house.
10. When di pikin grow, di woman carry am go give Pharaoh daughter, she come adopt am as her own pikin, she call di pikin Moses because she say, "I draw am commot for water."
11. One day, when Moses don grow, he go visit di Hebrew people, he see how dem dey suffer. He see say one Egyptian man dey beat one Hebrew man wey be him brother.
12. Moses look left and right, when he see say nobody dey, he kill di Egyptian man and bury am for sand.
13. Di next day, he see two Hebrew men dey fight, he ask di one wey do bad, "Why you dey beat your brother like dis?"
14. Di man reply, "Who make you our leader and judge? You wan kill me like you kill di Egyptian man?" Moses fear, he come know say dem don catch am.
15. When Pharaoh hear di matter, he wan kill Moses, but Moses run commot from Egypt, he go stay for Midian.
16. For Midian, one priest get seven daughters, dem come fetch water for di well, make dem give dia papa sheep drink.
17. But some shepherds come chase dem away, Moses help dem drive di shepherds, then he help dem give dia sheep water.
18. When di girls reach house, dia papa Jethro ask dem, "Why una come back early today?"
19. Dem reply say, "One Egyptian man help us from di shepherds, e even help us fetch water give our sheep drink."
20. Jethro say, "Where di man? Why una leave am for di well? Make una go call am, make e chop food."
21. Moses come agree to stay with Jethro, Jethro come give am him daughter Zipporah for wife.
22. Zipporah born one pikin, Moses call am Gershom, because he say, "I be stranger for dis land."
23. After many years, di king of Egypt die, but di Israelites still dey suffer, dem cry to God because of dia slavery.
24. God hear dia cry, he remember di promise wey he make to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
25. God see di suffer wey di Israelites dey go through, and he gree say e go help dem.
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