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Bible Verses About Egypt: Moses adopted and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter

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Verses on Moses adopted and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter

  1. And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought,

  2. She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.

  3. And the child's sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?

  4. She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.

  5. And Pharao's daughter said to her: Take this child, and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao's daughter.

  6. And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.