Exodus 2:2

And she conceived, and bore a male child; and having seen that he was fair, they hid him three months.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

In Context

1And there was a certain man of the tribe of Levi, who took to wife one of the daughters of Levi.

3And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with + 2:3 i. e. a peculiar kind, more resembling vegetable pitch.bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the ooze by the river.

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Cross References

Numbers 26:59And the name of his wife was Jochabed, daughter of Levi, who bore these to Levi in Egypt, and she bore to Amram, Aaron and Moses, and Mariam their sister.

Psalms 112:5Who is as the Lord our God? who dwells in the high places,

Matthew Henry on Exodus 2:2-5

The Birth of Moses. ( b. c. 1571.) 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. Moses was a… Read the whole commentary →

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