1 A man from Levis family married a Levite woman.2 The woman became pregnant and bore a son. She saw how beautiful he was and hid him for three months.3 When she could not hide him any longer, she took a basket made of papyrus reeds and coated it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in it and set it among the papyrus reeds near the bank of the Nile River.4 The babys sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.5 The kings daughter came to the river to bathe. Her servants walked along the bank. Suddenly she noticed the basket in the papyrus reeds and sent a slave woman to get it.6 She opened it and saw a baby boy. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. »This is one of the Hebrew babies,« she said.7 His sister asked her: »Shall I go and call a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for you?«8 »Please do,« she answered. So the girl went and brought the babys own mother.9 Pharaohs daughter told her: »Take care of this child, and I will pay you. The babys mother carried him home and took care of him.«10 When he was old enough, she took him to the kings daughter, who adopted him. She named him Moses because she said: »I pulled him out of the water.«