Exodus 2:7

Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter.

Miriam, no doubt, came up and joined the train as if by accident. If she had not previously been instructed by her mother what to say under contingency of such an occurrence as now really took place, we cannot but refer this suggestion on the part of the little girl to an immediate inward prompting from above. How else should it have entered her thoughts to propose making the mother of the exposed infant its nurse?--Bush.