Exodus 2:4-9 ▼

4 Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.

5 Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank . Seeing the basket among the reeds, she sent her slave girl to get it.

6 When she opened it, she saw the child  — a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “ This is one of the Hebrew boys.”

7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “ Should I go and call a woman from the Hebrews to nurse the boy for you ? ”

8 “ Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

9 Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “ Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.