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Exodus 2:6 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" 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. "
Exodus 2:6
Verse in Context
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And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at 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
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
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
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Exodus 2:1
"And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi."
Exodus 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."
Exodus 2:3
"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."
Exodus 2:4
"And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done"
Exodus 2:5
"And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at 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"
Exodus 2:7
"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"
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