Exodus 2:5

Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river while her attendants walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her attendant to get it.

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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.

In Context

4His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

6When she opened it, she saw the child. Behold, the baby was crying. She had compassion on him and said, “This is certainly one of the Hebrews' children.”

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Cross References

Exodus 8:20Yahweh said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand in front of Pharaoh as he goes out to the river. Say to him, 'Yahweh says this: “Let my people go so that they may worship me.

Psalms 9:9Yahweh also will be a stronghold for the oppressed, 1 a stronghold in times of trouble. 1

Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, 1 a very present help in trouble. 1

Proverbs 21:1The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of Yahweh; 1 he turns it wherever he pleases. 1

Jonah 2:10Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited up Jonah upon the dry 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 →

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