Exodus 2:1-10
The Birth of Moses
1Now a aman from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. 2The woman conceived and bore a son, and bwhen she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes ▼▼Hebrew papyrus reeds
and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the dreeds by the river bank. 4And ehis sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. 5Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. 6When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.” 7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” 8And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. 9And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became fher son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I gdrew him out of the water.” ▼▼ Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out
2 Samuel 4:4
4 iJonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan jcame from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.2 Kings 11:2
2But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took kJoash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she put ▼▼Compare 2 Chronicles 22:11; Hebrew lacks and she put
him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus they ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate (compare 2 Chronicles 22:11) she
hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death. Matthew 2:13-14
The Flight to Egypt
13Now when they had departed, behold, nan angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” 14And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt
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