---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Exodus from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 2
verse_count: 25
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Exodus, chap. 2, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Exodus 2

**1** And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
**2** And the woman conceived, and bare a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
**3** And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
**4** And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
**5** And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
**6** And when she had opened it, she saw the child; and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
**7** Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
**8** And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
**9** And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
**10** And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
**11** And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
**12** And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
**13** And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together; and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
**14** And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
**15** 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 sat down by a well.
**16** Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
**17** And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
**18** And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?
**19** And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
**20** And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
**21** And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
**22** And she bare him a son, and he called his? name Gershom; for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
**23** And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
**24** And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
**25** And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.