Literal Rendering of
Exodus 1, 2 and 3
From the Hebrew Text

By S.S.C. Hot Springs
Uncopyright December 2006

Exodus 1:1 And these are the names of the children of Israel coming Egyptward with He-Will-Heel. They came, a man and His house:

2. They-Saw-A-Son, Hearkening, My-Joined-[One] and He-Confessed-Yehovah,

3. There-Is-A-Wage, They-Shall-Cohabit, and Son-Of-Right,

4. Adjudicator, and My-Wrestling, Troop, and Happy.

5. And he was every being exiting from the thigh of He-Will-Heel: seventy being. And He-Will-Gather was in Egypt.

6. And He-Will-Gather died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

7. And the sons of Israel were fruitful. And they swarmed. And they multiplied. And they became very very strong! And the land filled them!

8. And a new king arose over Egypt who did not know He-Will-Gather.

9. And he said unto his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel is multiple and stronger than we are!

10. Come-on, we shall wisely-deal to him lest he will multiply. And he shall be, when they shall happen a war, and he will be gathered—even he—upon our enemies! And he will fight into us! And he will ascend from the land!

11. And they set princes of slave-labour over him in order to humble him via their burdens. And he built cities of warehouses to Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

12. And whenever they will humble him, established, he will multiply. And established, he will spread! And they were cut-off from the faces of the children of Israel!

13. And the Egyptians slave-drove the children of Israel via crushing.

14. And they embittered their lives via hard slavery: via mortar and via bricks and via every slavery in the field with all their slavery that they slaved via them via crushing.

15. And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives (the one whose name is Pretty and the second whose name is Groan?

16. and he said, “When ye child the Hebrews [fem.], and ye shall see upon the stones. If he is a son, and ye shall kill him. And if he is a daughter, and he shall live.”

17. And the midwives feared the Gods. And they did not, just as the king of Egypt spoke unto them. And they made- the children -live.

18. And the king of Egypt called to the midwives. And he said to them, “Why did ye this speech and have made- the children -live?”

19. And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrews [fem.] are not as women of the Egyptians [fem.]. For they are alive there! Before the midwife will come unto them, and they childed!”

20. And Elohim good-did to the midwives. And the people multiplied. And strengthened very-much!

21. And he was. For the midwives feared the Gods. And He made houses to them.

22. And Pharaoh commanded to all his people, saying, “Ye shall cast every son childed riverward! And ye shall make-live every daughter.”

Exodus 2:1 And a man from the House of My-Joined-[one] walked. And he took a daughter of My-Joined-[one].

2. And the woman conceived. And she childed a son. And she saw him, that he is good. And she hid him three moons.

3. And she was not further able to hide him. And she took to him a bulrush box. And she tarred her via tar and with pitch. And she put the child into her. And she put into a reed upon the lip of the river.

4. And his sister positioned herself from afar to know—what He do to him?

5. And the daughter of Pharaoh descended to bathe by the river. And her maidens are walking by the hand of the river. And she saw the box in the midst of the reed. And she sent her handmaid. And she took her.

6. And she opened. And she saw him—the child. And behold, a youth is weeping! And she had compassion upon him. And she said, “This is from the children of the Hebrews.”

7. And his sister said unto the daughter of Pharaoh, “Shall I walk? And I will call a nursing woman to thee from the Hebrews [fem.]. And she will nurse the child to thee!”

8. And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, “Walk!” And the virgin walked. And she called the mother of the child.

9. And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, “Walk this child. And nurse him to me. And I, I will give thy wage.” And the woman took the child. And she nursed him.

10. And the child ‘biggened’. And she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh. And he became to a son to her. And she called his name Draw. And she said, “For I drew him from the waters.”

11. And he was in those days. And Draw ‘biggened’. And he exited unto his brothers. And he saw via their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian man smiting a Hebrew man from his brethren.

12. And he turned so and so. And he saw that there is no man. And he smote the Egyptian. And he buried him in the sand.

13. And he exited in the second day. And behold, two Hebrew men are striving. And he said to the culpable-one, “Why wilt thou smite thy neighbour?”

14. And he said, “Who set thee a prince man and a judge over us? Art thou saying to slay me just as thou slew the Egyptian?” And Draw feared. And he said, “Ah, established, this speech is known!”

15. And Pharaoh heard this speech. And he sought to slay Draw. And Draw fled from the faces of Pharaoh. And he dwelt in the land of Midian. And he dwelt upon the well.

16. And seven daughters are to the priest of Midian. And they came. And they suspended and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

17. And the shepherds came. And they expelled them. And Draw arose. And he saved them. And he watered their flock.

18. And they came to They-Shepherded-A-Mighty-[One] their father. And he said, “Why did ye rush to come today?”

19. And they said, “An Egyptian man rescued us from the hand of the shepherds. And also suspending, he suspended to us. And he watered the flock!”

20. And he said unto his daughters, “And where is he? Why is this? Ye forsook the man? Call to him! And he has eaten bread.”

21. And Draw was content to dwell with the man. And he gave Ladybird his daughter to Draw.

22. And she childed a son. And he called his name Sojourner-There. For he said, “I was a sojourner in a foreign land.”

23. And he was in those many days. And the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel sighed from the slavery. And they screamed. And their imploring ascended unto the Gods from the slavery.

24. And Elohim hearkened-to their groaning. And Elohim remembered His Covenant with Father-Of-A-Crowd, with He-Will-Laugh and with He-Will-Heel.

25. And Elohim saw the children of Israel. And Elohim knew.

Exodus 3:1. And Draw was shepherding the flock of His-Excess his father-in-law, priest of Midian. And he conducted the flock after the desert. And he came unto Mountain of the Gods Horebward.

2. And Angel Yehovah appeared unto him in a flame of fire from the midst of the bush. And he saw. And behold, the bush burned in fire, and the bush?he is not being eaten!

3. And Draw said, “I will turn, na. And I saw this big appearance! Why won’t the bush burn?”

4. And Yehovah saw that he turned to see. And Elohim called unto him from the midst of the bush. And He said, “Draw! Draw!” And he said, “Behold I!”

5. And He said, “Don’t approach here! Remove thy shoes from upon thy feet! For the Place that thou art standing upon him—he is the soil of the Holy-[One]!”

6. And He said, I Am Gods of thy father—Gods of Father-Of-A-Crowd, Gods of He-Will-Laugh and Gods of He-Will-Heel.” And Draw hid his faces because he feared from peering unto the Gods.

7. And Yehovah said, “Seeing, I saw the humiliation of My People who are in Egypt. And I hearkened-to their scream from the faces of his slave-drivers. For I knew his pains!

8. And I descended to rescue him from the hand of Egypt and to ‘ascend’ him from that land unto a good and broad land, unto a land oozing milk and honey, unto the place of the Merchant and the Hot-[one] and the Sayer and the Rural-[one] and the Villager and the Desecrater.

9. And now, behold, the scream of the sons of Israel came unto me. And I also saw the oppression that Egyptians oppress them!

10. And now, walk! And I sent thee unto Pharaoh. And exit My People the sons of Israel from Egypt!”

11. And Draw said unto the Elohim, “Who am I that I will walk unto Pharaoh, and that I will exit the sons of Israel from Egypt?”

12. And He said, “Because I Will Be with thee. And this is the sign to thee that I, I sent thee: ye shall serve the Elohim upon this Mountain during thy exiting the People from Egypt.”

13. And Draw said unto the Elohim, “Behold I am coming unto the sons of Israel. And I will say to them, ‘Gods of your fathers sent me unto you!’ And they shall say to me, ‘What is his name?’ What shall I say unto them?”

14. And Elohim said unto Draw, “I Will Be Who I Will Be!” And He said, “Thus shalt thou say to the sons of Israel, ‘I Will Be sent me unto you!’“

15. And Elohim said more unto Draw. “So shalt thou say unto the sons of Israel, ‘Yehovah Gods of your fathers, Gods of Father-Of-A-Crowd, Gods of He-Will-Laugh and Gods of He-Will-Heel sent me unto you!’ This is My Name to Hider. And this is My Remembrance to generation generation.

16. Walk! And thou shalt gather the elders of Israel. And Thou shalt say unto them, ‘Yehovah Gods of your fathers appeared unto me?Gods of Father-Of-A-Crowd, He-Will-Laugh and He-Will-Heel to say, “Visiting, I visited you and the doings to you in Egypt!

17. And I said, ‘I will ascend you from the humiliation of Egypt unto the Land of the Merchant and the Hot-[one] and the Sayer and the Rural-[one] and the Villager and the Desecrater, unto a land oozing milk and honey!’ ” ’

18. And they shall hearken to thy voice. And thou shalt come—thou and the elders of Israel—unto the king of Egypt. And Ye shall say unto him, ‘Yehovah Gods of the Hebrews happened upon us! And now, we will walk, na, a way of three days into the desert. And We sacrificed her to Yehovah our Gods!’

19. And I, I knew that the king of Egypt will not give you to walk, and not via a gripping hand!

20. And I will send My Hand! And I will smite Egypt via all my miracles that I will do in his midst! And afterwards established, he will send you!

21. And I will give the favour of this People in the eyes of Egypt. And he shall be, for ye will walk; ye will not emptily walk!

22. And a woman shall ask utensils of silver and utensils of gold and garments from her abider [fem.] and from the sojourner [fem.] of her house. And ye shall put upon your sons and upon your daughters. And ye shall rescue Egypt!”