“And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter
of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him
that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when she
could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and
daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she
laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. And his sister stood afar
off, to wit what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came
down to the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side;
and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch
it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the
babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said,--This is one of the
Hebrews’ children. Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, ‘Shall I
go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the
child for thee?’ And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Go.’ And the maid
went and called the child’s mother. And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto
her, ‘Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee
thy wages.’ And the woman took the child, and nursed it.”
§ II.