Exodus 2:5

Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket amongst the reeds, and sent her servant 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 far off, to see what would be done to him.

6She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

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Cross References

Exodus 8:20The LORD said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Psalms 9:9The LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

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

Proverbs 21:1The king’s heart is in the LORD’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Jonah 2:10Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on 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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