The Geneva Bible Translation Notes, [1599], at sacred-texts.com
(a) This Levite was called Amram, who married Jochebed in (Exo 6:20).
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 (b) put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river's brink.
(b) Committing him to the providence of God, whom she could not keep from the rage of the tyrant.
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the (c) child's mother.
(c) Man's counsel cannot hinder that which God has determined shall come to pass.
And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was (d) grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
(d) That is, was forty years old; (Act 7:23).
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that [there was] no man, he (e) slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
(e) Being assured that God had appointed him to deliver the Israelites; (Act 7:25).
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 (f) feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
(f) Though by his fear he showed his weakness, yet faith covered it; (Heb 11:27).
And he said unto his daughters, And where [is] he? why [is] it [that] ye have left the man? (g) call him, that he may eat bread.
(g) In which he demonstrated a thankful mind, which would reward the good done to his.
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 (h) cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
(h) God humbles his by afflictions, that they should cry to him, and receive the fruit of his promise.
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had (i) respect unto [them].
(i) He judges their causes or acknowledged them as his own.