Exodus 2:1–10

After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of his own kindred.

²And she conceived, and bore a son: and seeing him a goodly child, hid him three months.

³And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river’s brink,

⁴His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.

⁵And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river’s brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought,

⁶She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.

⁷And the child’s sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?

⁸She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.

⁹And Pharao’s daughter said to her: Take this child, and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao’s daughter.

¹⁰And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.