Exodus 2:10

When the boy was older she took him to Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him as her son. She called him Moses, because she said, “I pulled him out of the water.”

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

9“Take this baby boy and nurse him for me,” Pharaoh's daughter told his mother. “I will pay you myself.” So his mother took him home and nursed him.

11Later, when Moses had grown up, he went to visit his people, the Hebrews. He saw them doing hard labor. He also saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

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Cross References

Genesis 16:11The angel of the Lord went on to tell her: “Listen! You're pregnant, and you will have a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard how you've suffered.

1 Samuel 1:20In due course she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I asked the Lord for him.”

Acts 7:21When he had to be abandoned, Pharaoh's daughter rescued him and took care of him as her own son.

Hebrews 11:24Trusting in God, Moses, when he grew up, refused to be known as the adopted son of Pharaoh's daughter.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 2:6-11

The Deliverance of Moses. ( b. c. 1571.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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