Exodus 2:1-8 ▼

1 And there goes a man of the house of Levi, and he takes the daughter of Levi,

2 and the woman conceives, and bears a son, and she sees him, that he [is] beautiful, and she hides him [for] three months,

3 and she has not been able to hide him anymore, and she takes an ark of rushes for him, and covers it with bitumen and with pitch, and puts the boy in it, and puts [it] in the weeds by the edge of the River;

4 and his sister stations herself far off, to know what is done to him.

5 And a daughter of Pharaoh comes down to bathe at the River, and her girls are walking by the side of the River, and she sees the ark in the midst of the weeds, and sends her handmaid, and she takes it,

6 and opens, and sees him—the boy, and behold, a child weeping! And she has pity on him and says, “This is [one] of the Hebrews’ children.”

7 And his sister says to the daughter of Pharaoh, “Do I go? When I have called a suckling woman of the Hebrews for you, then she suckles the boy for you”;

8 and the daughter of Pharaoh says to her, “Go”; and the virgin goes, and calls the mother of the boy,