Êxodo 2

1 And a man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi (to wife). 2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son; and she saw that he was good, and concealed him three months. 3 But not being able to hide him longer, she took an ark of reed, and covered it with bitumen and pitch, and laid the child within it, and set it in the river upon the brink of the stream. 4 And his sister stationed herself at a distance, to know what would be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pharoh came down to wash at the river, and her damsels walked on the river’s bank; and she saw the ark in the flood, and reached out her arm and took it. 6 And opening, she saw the child; and, behold, the infant wept. And she had compassion on him and said, This is one of the children of the Jehudaee. 7 Then spake his sister to the daughter of Pharoh, Shall I go and call a nurse-woman of the Jehudaee who will suckle the child for thee? 8 And the daughter of Pharoh said to her, Go; and the maiden went, and called the child’s mother. 9 And Pharoh’s daughter said to her, Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give thee they recompense. And the woman took the child and suckled him. 10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharoh’s daughter, and he became to her a son, and she called his name Mosheh, saying, Because I drew him out from the water.