BABY IN A BASKET ON THE WATER
Exodus 2:1-10
1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took [to wife] a
daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and
when she saw him that he [was a] goodly [child], she hid him three
months. 3 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 put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the
river's brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would
be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash
[herself] at the river; and her maidens walked along by the
river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent
her maid to fetch it. 6 And when she had opened [it], she saw the
child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him,
and said, This [is one] of the Hebrews' children. 7 Then said his
sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse
of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 8 And
Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called
the child's mother. 9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take
this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give [thee] thy
wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. 10 And the
child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he
became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said,
Because I drew him out of the water.
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