⁵ Soon Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe in the river, and her attendants walked along the riverbank. When the princess saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it for her.

²¹ When they had to abandon him, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and raised him as her own son.

Psalm 46

For the choir director: A song of the descendants of Korah, to be sung by soprano voices.^[a]

A Plague of Flies

²⁰ Then the Lord told Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand in Pharaoh’s way as he goes down to the river. Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so they can worship me.

¹⁵ So go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes down to the river. Stand on the bank of the Nile and meet him there. Be sure to take along the staff that turned into a snake.

⁶ The ravens brought him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he drank from the brook.