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Exodus 2. GOD’S WORD Translation. Pharaoh’s Daughter Adopts Moses. 2 A man from Levi’s family married a Levite woman. 2 The woman became pregnant and had a son. She saw how beautiful he was and hid him for three months. 3 When she couldn’t hide him any longer, she took a basket made of papyrus plants and coated it with tar and pitch.
- Ezekiel The Tragedian: A Loving Adoptive Mother
- Jubilees: Tharmuth
- Biblical Antiquities: Prophecy and Circumcision
- Josephus: Moses Was A Beautiful Boy
- Rabbinic Interpretation: Bityah The Jewess
- Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer: Saved by The Baby
- A Righteous Gentile Or A Convert to Judaism?
Ezekiel the Tragedian, a Jew who likely lived in the second or first centuryB.C.E. in the vicinity of Egypt, composed a Greek play called Exagoge (ἐξαγωγή) “Drawing Out,” in which he retells the story of Moses and the Exodus. At one point, Moses, who serves as the narrator, recounts how Pharaoh’s daughter discovered him in the Nile (§13–31). Then h...
At approximately the same time that Exagoge was composed in Egypt, a Judean writer composed a Hebrew work known as Jubilees, in which the Angel of the Presence retells the stories of Genesis and much of Exodus to Moses, with multiple narrative and legal expansions. In the scene with Pharaoh’s daughter, the angel says to Moses: Jub 47:5And in those ...
In the biblical story, Pharaoh’s daughter’ just happened to appear at the Nile. In contrast, Biblical Antiquities of Pseudo-Philo, a 1st centuryC.E. text originally written in Hebrew, presents it as inspired by a prophetic dream (9:15–16): Now Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe in the river, as she had seen in dreams, and her maids saw the ark. ...
The first centuryC.E. historian Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews, describes how Moses’s father Amram had prophetic knowledge that God would save the Israelites through Moses, and thus he—not his wife Jochebed—constructed the ark, put Moses in it, and placed it in the Nile, hoping that the baby would be discovered and saved. Josephus describ...
The rabbis also give Pharaoh’s daughter a name, Bityah “daughter of Yah,” the Israelite God (rather than an Egyptian god). They derive this name from 1 Chronicles 4:18, which in its genealogical list of Caleb’s descendants refers to a Pharaoh’s daughter—not necessarily this Pharaoh—by that name who married into the family. Leviticus Rabbah, a mid-f...
Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, a midrashic work from the latter half of the first millenniumC.E., offers a less generous explanation for why Pharaoh’s daughter was bathing that day, and why she decided to adopt Moses (48:8): Although in this retelling, Bityah wasn’t driven by altruistic motives, she still earns a place in the world to come: Similarly, De...
The Bible’s account of Pharoah’s daughter is sparse, and later interpreters embellished her story. For some she was Thermuthis, named after an Egyptian goddess, for others Bityah, named after her conversion to belief in the Jewish God. In one telling, she tries to have Moses as heir to the throne, in another, she brings him up as an Israelite with ...
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When he was set outside, Pharaoh's daughter took him and brought him up as her own son. Hebrews 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. Exodus 2:9 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages." So the woman took the boy and nursed him. 1 ...
Let’s take a look at what the Book of Exodus (chapter 2) says about Moses’ birth and rescue: 2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2:2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 2:3 And when she could not longer hide him ...
Jan 1, 2021 · Further, I will use current information about references to “Pharaoh’s daughter” (Ex 2:5, 7, 9, 10; Acts 7:21; Heb 11:24) as a foundation for investigation. In so doing, I believe that a reasonable assumption can be made as to when the Exodus happened and who were some of the unnamed Egyptian personalities in the book of Exodus.
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water. And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his ...
Exodus 2:10. And he became her son — The tradition of the Jews is, that Pharaoh’s daughter had no child of her own, and that she was the only child of her father, so that when he was adopted for her son, he stood fair for the crown: however, it is certain he stood fair for the best preferments of the court in due time, and in the mean time had the advantage of the best education, with the ...
