Exodus 2:5
Soon the king’s daughter went down to the river to bathe. Her female servants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket amid the tall grass in the river. So she sent one of her servants to get it.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
4His/My older sister was standing not far away, watching to see what would happen to him/me.
Cross References
Exodus 8:20Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Get up early tomorrow morning. Go down to the river and wait for the king. When he comes to bathe [MTY], say to him, ‘This is what Yahweh says to you: “Let my people go, in order that they may worship me in the desert.
Psalms 9:9Yahweh will be a refuge for those who are oppressed; yes, he will be like a shelter for them when they have trouble.
Psalms 46:1God is the one who protects us and causes us to be strong; he is always ready to help us when we have troubles.
Proverbs 21:1Yahweh controls what kings do [MTY] like he controls how streams flow; he causes kings to do just what he wants them to do.
Jonah 2:10Then Yahweh commanded the huge fish to vomit out Jonah, and the fish did that, and Jonah was able to get to the land.
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 →