Exodus 2:5-10
International Standard Version
Pharaoh’s Daughter Adopts Moses
5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter came down to the Nile River[a] to bathe while her maids walked along the river bank. She saw the container among the reeds and sent a servant girl to get it. 6 When she opened it and saw the child, the little boy suddenly began crying. Filled with compassion for him, she exclaimed, “This is one of the Hebrew children!”
7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the nursing Hebrew women so she can nurse the child for you?”
8 Pharaoh’s daughter told her, “Go,” so the young girl went and called the child’s mother. 9 Pharaoh’s daughter instructed her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I’ll pay you a salary.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 After the child had grown older,[b] she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,[c] because she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
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- Exodus 2:5 The Heb. lacks River
- Exodus 2:10 The Heb. lacks older
- Exodus 2:10 The Heb. name Moses sounds like the Heb. verb draw out
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