and her maydens walked along by the ryuers syde: And when she sawe the basket among the flagges, she sent her mayde to fetch it.
6 And when she had opened it, she sawe it was a chylde: and beholde, the babe wept. And she had compassion on it, and sayde: it is one of the Hebrues chyl∣dren.
7 Then sayde his sister to Pharaos [unspec B] daughter: shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrues women, to nurse thee the chylde?
8 Pharaos daughter aunswered her: go. And the mayde ranne and called the chyldes mother.
9 To whom Pharaos daughter sayde: Take this chylde away, and nurse it for me, and I wyll rewarde thee. And the woman toke the chylde, & nursed it vp.
10 The chylde grewe, and she brought it vnto Pharaos daughter, and it was made her sonne. And she called ye name of it Moyses: because [sayde she] I toke hym out of the water.
11 And in those dayes, when Moyses was waxed great, he went out vnto his brethren, & loked on their burdens, and spyed an Egyptian smytyng an He∣brue which was one of his brethren.
12 And he loked rounde about, and when he sawe no man by, he slewe the E∣gyptian, and hyd hym in the sande.
13 And when he was gone out another day, beholde, two men of the Hebrues stroue together: And he saide vnto him that dyd the wrong, Wherefore smytest thou thy felowe?
[unspec C] 14 He aunswered: Who made thee a man of aucthoritie and a iudge ouer vs? intendest thou to kyll me, as thou kyl∣ledst the Egyptian? And Moyses feared and sayde: Of a suretie this thyng is knowen.
15 And Pharao heard of it, and went about to slaye Moyses. And Moyses fleyng from the face of Pharao, dwelt in the lande of Madian: and he sate downe by the welles syde.
16 The priest of Madian had vij. daugh∣ters, which came and drewe [water] and filled the troughes for to water their fa∣thers sheepe.
17 And the shepheardes came and droue them away: but Moyses stoode vp and helped them, and watred their sheepe.
18 And when they came to Raguel their father, he sayde: Howe came it to passe that ye are come so soone to day?
19 And they aunswered: A man of E∣gypt [unspec D] deliuered vs from the handes of the shepheardes, and so drewe vs wa∣ter, and watered the sheepe.
20 He saide vnto his daughters: & where is he? why haue ye so left the man? Call hym, that he may eate bread.
21 And Moyses was content to dwell with the man: & he gaue Moyses Se∣phora his daughter:
22 Which bare him a sonne, and he called his name Gershom: For he saide, I haue ben a straunger in a straunge land.
23 And in processe of tyme the kyng of Egypt dyed, and the chyldren of Israel syghed by the reason of bondage, and cryed.
24 And their complaynt came vp vnto God from the bondage: and God heard their mone, and God remembred his couenaunt with Abraham, Isahac, and Iacob.
25 And God loked vpon the chyldren of Israel, and God had respecte vnto them.