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Now there arose vp a new King ouer Egypt, which knew not Ioseph.

And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew-women, and see them vpon the stooles, if it be a sonne, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then shee shall liue.

¶ And there went a man of the house of Leui, & tooke to wife a daughter of Leui.

1611 marginal noteChap. 6.20. num. 26.59.

And the woman conceiued, and bare a sonne: and when shee saw him that hee was a goodly childe, shee hid him three moneths.

1611 marginal noteActs 7.20. heb. 11.23.

Then said his sister to Pharaohs daughter, Shall I goe, and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew-women, that she may nurse the childe for thee?

And he said, Who made thee a Prince and a iudge ouer vs? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is knowen.

1611 marginal noteHebr. a Man a Prince.

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sate downe by a well.

And she bare him a sonne, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I haue bene a stranger in a strange land.

1611 marginal noteChap. 18.3.

And the Angel of the LORD appeared vnto him, in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush, and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

1611 marginal noteA&s. 7.30.

And I am come downe to deliuer them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them vp out of that land, vnto a good land and a large, vnto a lande flowing with milke and hony, vnto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites.