Exodus 2:2
2The woman became pregnant ▼▼ Or “conceived” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).
and gave birth to a son. When ▼▼ A preterite form with the vav consecutive can be subordinated to a following clause. What she saw stands as a reason for what she did: “when she saw…she hid him three months.”
she saw that ▼▼ After verbs of perceiving or seeing there are frequently two objects, the formal accusative (“she saw him”) and then a noun clause that explains what it was about the child that she perceived (“that he was healthy”). See GKC 365 #117.h.
he was a healthy ▼ child, she hid him for three months.
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