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will express what you’ve learned. For the
lips of an immoral woman are as sweet as
honey, and her mouth is smoother than
oil. But in the end she is as bitter as poison, as dangerous as a double-edged
sword. Her feet go down to death; her
steps lead straight to the grave.* For she
cares nothing about the path to life. She
staggers down a crooked trail and
doesn’t realize it.
5:5 Hebrew to Sheol.
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EXODUS 2:11–3:22
Many years later, when Moses had
grown up, he went out to visit his own
people, the Hebrews, and he saw how
hard they were forced to work. During
his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one
of his fellow Hebrews. 12After looking
in all directions to make sure no one was
watching, Moses killed the Egyptian
and hid the body in the sand.
13 The next day, when Moses went out
to visit his people again, he saw two Hebrew men fighting. “Why are you beating up your friend?” Moses said to the
one who had started the fight.
14The man replied, “Who appointed
you to be our prince and judge? Are you
going to kill me as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?”
Then Moses was afraid, thinking,
“Everyone knows what I did.” 15And sure
enough, Pharaoh heard what had happened, and he tried to kill Moses. But
Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to
live in the land of Midian.
When Moses arrived in Midian, he
sat down beside a well. 16Now the priest
of Midian had seven daughters who
came as usual to draw water and fill the
water troughs for their father’s flocks.
17 But some other shepherds came and
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chased them away. So Moses jumped up
and rescued the girls from the shepherds. Then he drew water for their
flocks.
18When the girls returned to Reuel,
their father, he asked, “Why are you
back so soon today?”
19“An Egyptian rescued us from the
shepherds,” they answered. “And then
he drew water for us and watered our
flocks.”
20“Then where is he?” their father
asked. “Why did you leave him there?
Invite him to come and eat with us.”
21Moses accepted the invitation, and
he settled there with him. In time, Reuel
gave Moses his daughter Zipporah to be
his wife. 22Later she gave birth to a son,
and Moses named him Gershom,* for
he explained, “I have been a foreigner in
a foreign land.”
23 Years passed, and the king of Egypt
died. But the Israelites continued to
groan under their burden of slavery.
They cried out for help, and their cry
rose up to God. 24God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant
promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
25He looked down on the people of Israel and knew it was time to act.*
3:1One day Moses was tending the flock
of his father-in-law, Jethro,* the priest of
Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai,* the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the
Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire
from the middle of a bush. Moses stared
in amazement. Though the bush was
engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up.
3“This is amazing,” Moses said to himself. “Why isn’t that bush burning up? I
must go see it.”
4When the Lord saw Moses coming
to take a closer look, God called to him
from the middle of the bush, “Moses!
Moses!”
“Here I am!” Moses replied.
5“Do not come any closer,” the Lord
warned. “Take off your sandals, for
you are standing on holy ground. 6I am
the God of your father*—the God of
