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 FOR THEE?_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

5-10 Come, see the place where that great man, Moses, lay, when he was a little child; it was in a bulrush basket by the river's side. Had he been left there long, he must have perished. But Providence brings Pharaoh's daughter to the place where this poor forlorn infant lay, and inclines her heart to pity it, which she dares do, when none else durst. God's care of us in our infancy ought to be often mentioned by us to his praise. Pharaoh cruelly sought to destroy Israel, but his own daughter had pity on a Hebrew child, and not only so, but, without knowing it, preserved Israel's deliverer, and provided Moses with a good nurse, even his own mother. That he should have a Hebrew nurse, the sister of Moses brought the mother into the place of a nurse. Moses was treated as the son of Pharoah's daughter. Many who, by their birth, are obscure and poor, by surprising events of Providence, are r...

Verse Exodus 2:7. _SHALL I GO AND CALL A NURSE_] Had not the different circumstances marked here been placed under the superintendence of an especial providence, there is no human probability that they could have had such a happy issue. The parents had done every thing to save their child that piety, affection, and prudence could dictate, and having done so, they left the event to God. _By_ _faith_, says the apostle, Hebrews 11:23, _Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents,_ _because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid_ _of the king's commandment_. Because of the king's commandment they were obliged to make use of the most prudent caution to save the child's life; and their faith in God enabled them to risk _their_ _own safety_, f...

EXPOSITION. Exodus 2:1. THE BIRTH, ESCAPE, AND EDUCATION OF MOSES. Some years before the Pharaoh issued his edict for the general destruction of the Hebrew male children, Amram of the tribe of Levi, had married Jochebed, his kinswoman (Exodus 6:20). They had already had two children — Miriam, a daughter, born probably soon after the marriage, and Aaron, a son, born some twelve years later. Soon after the issue of the edict, Jochebed gave birth to her third child, a son, who therefore came under its terms. Knowing as she did what fate was in store for him, if his existence became known to the Egyptians, she "hid him three months." Then, despairing of being able to keep him concealed much longer, she devised the plan related in...

THEN SAID HIS SISTER TO PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER,.... Miriam the sister of Moses, who observing the ark taken up, and the maidens that were walking upon the bank of the river, and other women perhaps, gathering about it to see it; she made one among them, and after hearing their discourse about it, proposed what follows to Pharaoh's daughter: Jarchi says, that Pharaoh's daughter tried several Egyptian women to suckle it, but it would not suck of them: Josephus r says the same, and it also is in the Talmud s; and that, if true, gave Miriam a fair opportunity to offer to do the following message for her: SHALL I GO AND CALL FOR THEE A NURSE OF THE HEBREW WOMEN, THAT SHE MAY NURSE THE CHILD FOR THEE? for she perceived that she was desirous of having the child brought up as her own. r Antiqu. l. 2. c. 9. sect. 5. s T. Bab. Sotah, ut supra. (fol. 12.1)...

2. MOSES THE CHOSEN DELIVERER CHAPTER 2 Moses: His Birth, Education, Choice, and Exile _ 1. His birth and concealment (Exodus 2:1)_ 2. His rescue and education (Exodus 2:5) 3. His choice and failure (Exodus 2:11) 4. His exile (Exodus 2:15) 5. His marriage (Exodus 2:21) 6. The answered cry (Exodus 2:23) The history of the chosen deliverer, recorded by himself under the guidance of the Spirit, follows the dark picture of Israel

EXODUS 2:1 TO EXODUS 4:31. PREPARATION AND CALL OF MOSES. Exodus 2:1 E. His Birth and Upbringing. If the text can be trusted, we are informed that a man of the house of Levi took (to wife) the (only) daughter of Levi (_cf. Exodus 6:20_, Numbers 26:59 P), who would thus be, according to the genealogy of P, his aunt, or the sister of his father Kohath. Possibly, however, the text has been abridged, and ran, as LXX with some variations suggests, took one of the daughters of Levi to wife and made her his own (lit. had her). It is implied in...

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._...

THEN SAID HIS SISTER, &C.— The hand of Providence was very visible in this whole event: and as it inspired the heart of Pharaoh's daughter to have the child educated as her own; so it inspired _Miriam_ to approach the princess, and offer her services, to go and call a Hebrew nurse. One may easily imagine, that the taking the child from out the flags, occasioned some hurry and trouble; and Miriam, who stood at a distance on the watch, might approach, as it were by chance, or from natural curiosity, to see the poor little infant; and, finding the princess determined to save it, she might propose a Hebrew nurse, as it was a Hebrew's child. We may easily conceive with what joy she flew to her mother on this occasion, as well as with what transport the mother must have received her infant from the hands of the princess, with an express order to take the same care of him, as if he were her own...

THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 2 And there went a man of the house of Le-vi, and took to wife a daughter of Le-vi. (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. (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 she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. (4) And his sister stood afar off, _to_ know what would be done to him. (5) And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it. (6) And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews-' children. (7) Then said his sister to Pha-raoh's daughter, Shall I...