A reading from the book of Exodus.

Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman.

The woman conceived and bore a son.

And when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket,

made of bulrushes, and dobed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it

among the reeds by the riverbank, and his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.

Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river while her young women walked beside the river.

She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman and she took it.

When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying.

She took pity on him and said, this is one of the Hebrew's children.

Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter,

Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew woman to nurse the child for you?

And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, go. So the Hebrew woman to nurse the child for you? And Pharaoh's daughter said

to her, go. So the girl went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said to her,

take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages. So the woman took the child and nursed him.

When the child grew older,

she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son.

She named him Moses.

Because she said, I drew him out of the water.

One day when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people

and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. He looked

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