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Exodus 2 Free Bible Version (Spanish)

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1 Fue en esa época que un hombre de la tribu de Leví se casó con una mujer que también era levita.
1 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.
2 Ella quedó embarazada y tuvo un hijo. Y viendo que era un bebé precioso, lo escondió durante tres meses.
2 The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
3 Pero cuando ya no pudo esconderlo más, cogió una cesta de papiro y la cubrió con alquitrán. Luego puso a su bebé en la cesta y lo colocó entre los juncos, a lo largo de la orilla del Nilo.
3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
4 Y la hermana del niño esperaba a cierta distancia, vigilándolo.
4 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
5 Entonces la hija del Faraón llegó para bañarse en el Nilo. Sus criadas caminaban por la orilla del río, y cuando ella vio la cesta entre los juncos, envió a su criada a buscarla y traérsela.
5 Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.
6 Al abrirla, vio al niño que lloraba y sintió pesar por él. “Este debe ser uno de los niños hebreos”, dijo.
6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
7 Entoncesla hermana del niño le preguntó a la hija del Faraón: “¿Desea que vaya a buscar a una de las mujeres hebreas para que lo cuide por usted?”
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
8 “Sí, ve y hazlo”, respondió ella. Así que la niña fue y llamó a la madre del bebé para que viniera.
8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The young woman went and called the child’s mother.
9 “Toma a este niño y amamántalo por mí”, le dijo la hija del Faraóna la madre del niño. “Yo misma te pagaré”. Así que su madre se lo llevó a casa y lo cuidó.
9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” The woman took the child, and nursed him.
10 Cuando el niño creció, se lo llevó a la hija del Faraón, quien lo adoptó como su hijo. Ella lo llamó Moisés, porque dijo: “Yo lo saqué del agua”.
10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
11 Más tarde, cuando Moisés había crecido, fue a visitar a su pueblo, los hebreos. Los vio haciendo trabajos forzados. También vio a un egipcio golpeando a un hebreo, uno de su propio pueblo.
11 In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
12 Entonces miró a su alrededor para asegurarse de que nadie estuviera mirando, yluego mató al egipcio y enterró su cuerpo en la arena.
12 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
13 Al día siguiente, regresó y vio a dos hebreos peleando entre sí. Entonces le dijo al culpable: “¿Por qué golpeas a uno de los tuyos?”
13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”
14 “¿Quién te ha encargado como juez sobre nosotros?” , respondió el hombre. “¿Acaso vas a matarme como lo hiciste con el egipcio?” Entonces Moisés se asustó por esto y pensó para sí: “¡La gente sabe lo que he hecho!”
14 He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”
15 Cuando el Faraón se enteró, trató de mandar a matar a Moisés, pero Moisés huyó del Faraón y se fue a vivir a Madián. Un día, mientras estaba sentado junto a un pozo,
15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
16 las siete hijas del sacerdote de Madiánvinieron a buscar agua para llenar los bebederos a fin de que el rebaño de su padre pudiera beber.
16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
17 Entonces llegaron unos pastores y las echaron de allí, pero Moisés intervino y las puso a salvo, y le dio de beber a su rebaño.
17 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18 Cuando llegaron a casa, su padre Reuel les preguntó: “¿Cómo es que hoy han regresado tan rápido?”
18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
19 “Un egipcio nos rescató de unos pastores que nos atacaron”, respondieron. “Incluso nos trajo agua para que el rebaño pudiera beber”.
19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”
20 “¿Y dónde está?” le preguntó Reuel a su hija. “No lo dejaste allí, ¿verdad? ¡Ve e invítalo a comer con nosotros!”
20 He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”
21 Y Moisés aceptó quedarse con el hombre, quien arregló que su hija Séfora se casara con Moisés.
21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
22 Ella tuvo un hijo y Moisés le puso el nombre de Gersón, porque dijo: “Soy un exiliado que vive en un país extranjero”.
22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
23 Años más tarde, el rey de Egipto murió. Pero los israelitas seguían quejándose por su duro trabajo. Su clamor pidiendo ayuda en medio de sus dificultades llegó hasta Dios.
23 In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
24 Dios escuchó sus gemidos y se acordó de su pacto con Abraham, Isaac, y Jacob.
24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 Además Dios miraba con compasión a los israelitas, y se preocupaba por ellos.
25 God saw the children of Israel, and God understood.

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  • Gershom

    Moses' firstborn

    Moses' firstborn son, born during his years of exile in the land of Midian.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 2:22; Exodus 18:3

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  • Jochebed

    Mother of Moses

    The Levite mother who hid her baby in the Nile to save Moses' life.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 2; Exodus 6:20; Numbers 26:59

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  • Miriam

    Prophetess of Israel

    The sister who watched over baby Moses and later led Israel in song.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 2:1–8; 15:20–21; Numbers 12

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  • Moses

    Deliverer and lawgiver

    Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34

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  • Pharaoh's daughter

    Moses' adoptive mother

    The unnamed daughter of Pharaoh who found the baby Moses in a papyrus basket on the Nile, had compassion on him, hired his own mother to nurse him, and adopted him as her son.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 2:5–10

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  • Jethro

    Priest of Midian; Moses' father-in-law

    The priest of Midian, also called Reuel, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses, brought her and her two sons to Moses at the mountain of God, and advised him to appoint capable…

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 2:18; Exodus 3:1; Exodus 18:1

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  • Zipporah

    Wife of Moses

    The Midianite daughter of Jethro who became Moses' wife in the wilderness.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 2:16-22; Exodus 4:24-26; Exodus 18

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Cross references (24)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Numbers 26:59; Exodus 6:16–20; 1 Chronicles 23:12–14; 1 Chronicles 6:1–3
  2. 2 Hebrews 11:23; Acts 7:20
  3. 3 Exodus 1:22; Acts 7:19; Genesis 6:14; Isaiah 18:2; Matthew 2:16
  4. 4 Numbers 26:59; Exodus 15:20; Micah 6:4; Numbers 20:1; Numbers 12:1–15
  5. 5 Acts 7:21; Psalm 12:5; Psalm 9:9; Exodus 8:20; Psalm 46:1
  6. 6 1 Kings 8:50; 1 Peter 3:8; Acts 7:21; Nehemiah 1:11; Psalm 106:46
  7. 7 Exodus 2:4; Numbers 26:59; Numbers 12:1; Exodus 15:20
  8. 8 Isaiah 46:3–4; Psalm 27:10; Exodus 6:20; Ezekiel 16:8
  9. 10 Hebrews 11:24; Acts 7:21–22; Genesis 16:11; 1 Samuel 1:20; Matthew 1:21
  10. 11 Hebrews 11:24–26; Acts 7:22–24; Exodus 1:11; Matthew 11:28; Luke 4:18
  11. 12 Acts 7:24–26
  12. 13 Acts 7:26–28; 1 Corinthians 6:7–8
  13. 14 Luke 12:14; Matthew 21:23; Genesis 37:19–20; Psalm 2:2–6; Genesis 19:9
  14. 15 Hebrews 11:27; Acts 7:29; Genesis 24:11; Genesis 29:2; 1 Kings 19:1–3
  15. 16 Genesis 24:11; Exodus 3:1; 1 Samuel 9:11; Genesis 24:14–20; Genesis 29:6–10
  16. 17 Genesis 29:10; Genesis 21:25; Exodus 2:12; Genesis 26:15–22
  17. 18 Exodus 3:1; Numbers 10:29; Exodus 4:18; Exodus 18:1–12; Numbers 19:20
  18. 19 Genesis 29:10; Genesis 50:11
  19. 20 Genesis 31:54; Genesis 43:25; Genesis 18:5; Hebrews 13:2; Job 31:32
  20. 21 Genesis 31:38–40; Hebrews 13:5; 1 Timothy 6:6; Exodus 2:10; Exodus 18:2–6
  21. 22 Hebrews 11:13–14; Acts 7:29; Exodus 22:21; Psalm 119:19; Psalm 39:12
  22. 23 Genesis 18:20–21; James 5:4; Exodus 3:7–9; Acts 7:30; Exodus 22:22–27
  23. 24 Genesis 26:3; Psalm 105:42; Exodus 6:5; Genesis 15:14–18; Luke 1:72–73
  24. 25 Exodus 4:31; Psalm 55:22; Exodus 3:7–8; Luke 1:25; Psalm 1:6

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 2:10 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon I)

    … saith: "The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband; and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife." Moses too, who was born of a Hebrew mother and was exposed, was adopted by Pharaoh's daughter. There were not then indeed the same forms of law as now, but the choice …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 2:24 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXVI)

    For with respect to the patriarch it is said, "I remembered my covenant with Abraham;" but here He saith not "the covenant," but how?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  3. Quotes verse 2:12–15 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XCIX)

    That perhaps the early life of Moses was sinful; for he fled from Egypt, after slaying a man. The early life of Aaron also was such as would displease God; for he allowed a maddened and infatuated people to make an idol to worship; and an idol was made for God's people to worship.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)