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and the Israelites continued to multiply, growing more and more powerful.
21 And because the midwives feared
God, he gave them families of their
own.
22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to
all his people: “Throw every newborn
Hebrew boy into the Nile River. But
you may let the girls live.”
2:1 About
this time, a man and woman
from the tribe of Levi got married.
2 The woman became pregnant and
gave birth to a son. She saw that he
was a special baby and kept him hidden for three months. 3 But when she
could no longer hide him, she got a
basket made of papyrus reeds and
waterproofed it with tar and pitch. She
put the baby in the basket and laid it
among the reeds along the bank of
the Nile River. 4 The baby’s sister then
stood at a distance, watching to see
what would happen to him.
5 Soon Pha
raoh’s daughter came
down to bathe in the river, and her attendants walked along the riverbank.
When the princess saw the basket
among the reeds, she sent her maid
to get it for her. 6 When the princess
opened it, she saw the baby. The little
boy was crying, and she felt sorry for
him. “This must be one of the Hebrew
children,” she said.
7 Then the baby’s sister approached
the princess. “Should I go and find
one of the Hebrew women to nurse the
baby for you?” she asked.
8 “Yes, do!” the princess replied. So
the girl went and called the baby’s
mother.
9 “Take this baby and nurse him
for me,” the princess told the baby’s
mother. “I will pay you for your help.”
So the woman took her baby home
and nursed him.
10 Later, when the boy was older,
his mother brought him back to Pha
raoh’s daughter, who adopted him as
her own son. The princess named him
Moses,* for she explained, “I lifted
him out of the water.”
50:2 Hebrew Israel. See note on 35:21.
50:11 Abel-mizraim means “mourning of the
Egyptians.”
50:23 Hebrew who were born on
January 25
Joseph’s knees.
1:5 Dead Sea Scrolls and Greek
version read seventy-five; see notes on Gen 46:27.
1:10 Or will take the country.
1:16 Hebrew look
upon the two stones; perhaps the reference is to a
birthstool.
2:10 Moses sounds like a Hebrew term
that means “to lift out.”
MATTHEW 16:13–17:9
When Jesus came to the region of
Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the
Son of Man is?”*
14 “Well,” they replied, “some say
John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and
others say Jeremiah or one of the other
prophets.”
15 Then he asked them, “But who do
you say I am?”
16
Simon Peter answered, “You are
the Messiah,* the Son of the living
God.”
17 Jesus replied, “You are blessed, Si
mon son of John,* because my Father
in heaven has revealed this to you.
You did not learn this from any human
being. 18 Now I say to you that you are
Peter (which means ‘rock’),* and upon
this rock I will build my church, and
all the powers of hell* will not conquer it. 19 And I will give you the keys
of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever
you forbid* on earth will be forbidden
in heaven, and whatever you permit*
on earth will be permitted in heaven.”
20 Then he sternly warned the disciples not to tell anyone that he was
the Messiah.
21 From then on J
esus* began to tell
his disciples plainly that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem, and
that he would suffer many terrible
things at the hands of the elders, the
leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but on
the third day he would be raised from
the dead.
22 But Pe
ter took him aside and
began to reprimand him* for saying
such things. “Heaven forbid, Lord,” he
said. “This will never happen to you!”
23
Jesus turned to Peter and said,
“Get away from me, Satan! You are a
dangerous trap to me. You are seeing
things merely from a human point of
view, not from God’s.”
