² and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine^(A) child, she hid him for three months.^{(B) 3} But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus^(C) basket^[a] for him and coated it with tar and pitch.^(D) Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds^(E) along the bank of the Nile. ⁴ His sister^(F) stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

⁵ Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank.^(G) She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. ⁶ She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.

⁷ Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”

⁸ “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. ⁹ Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. ¹⁰ When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named^(H) him Moses,^[b] saying, “I drew^(I) him out of the water.”

¹⁹ Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual^(A) sacrifice.

²⁷ Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother.”

⁷ Instead, we were like young children^[a] among you.

Just as a nursing mother cares for her children,^(A)

⁸ so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God^(A) but our lives as well.^(B)