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Exodus 1
²¹ Because the midwives feared God, He established households for them.
²² Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive."
Exodus 2
¹ Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi.
² The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.
³ But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
⁴ His sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.
⁵ The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her maidens walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her.
⁶ When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews’ children."
⁷ Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, "Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you?"
⁸ Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, "Go ahead." So the girl went and called the child’s mother.
⁹ Then 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.