Daily Discovery Bible Study

1 It was around this time that a man from the tribe of Levi married a woman, also a Levite.2 She became pregnant and had a son. She saw he was a lovely baby, and she hid him for three months.3 But when she couldn't hide him anymore, she got a papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch. Then she put her baby in the basket and placed it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.4 His sister waited some distance away, keeping an eye on him.

5 Then Pharaoh's daughter arrived to bathe in the Nile. Her ladies-in-waiting were walking along the bank of the river. When she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it and bring it to her.6 When she opened it she saw the baby boy. He was crying and she felt sorry for him. “This must be one of the Hebrew boys,” she said.

7 His sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, “Would you like me to go and find one of the Hebrew women to nurse him for you?”

8 “Yes, go and do that,” she replied. So the girl went and called the baby's mother to come.

9 “Take this baby boy and nurse him for me,” she told his mother. “I will pay you myself.” So his mother took him home and nursed him.

Exodus 2: 1-9