Êxodo 2:6

6 E abrindo-a, viu a criança, e eis que o menino chorava; então ela teve compaixão dele, e disse: Este é um dos filhos dos hebreus.

Êxodo 2:6 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 2:6

And when she had opened it
The ark, for it was shut or covered over, though doubtless there were some apertures for respiration:

she saw the child [in it], and, behold, the babe wept;
and which was a circumstance, it is highly probable, greatly affected the king's daughter, and moved her compassion to it; though an Arabic writer says {p}, she heard the crying of the child in the ark, and therefore sent for it:

and she had compassion on him, and said, this is one of the Hebrews'
children;
which she might conclude from its being thus exposed, knowing her father's edict, and partly from the form and beauty of it, Hebrew children not being swarthy and tawny as Egyptian ones: the Jewish writers ^F17 say, she knew it by its being circumcised, the Egyptians not yet using circumcision.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Patricides apud Hottinger. p 401.
F17 T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 12. 2. Aben Ezra in loc.

Êxodo 2:6 In-Context

4 E sua irmã postou-se de longe, para saber o que lhe aconteceria.

5 A filha de Faraó desceu para banhar-se no rio, e as suas criadas passeavam � beira do rio. Vendo ela a arca no meio os juncos, mandou a sua criada buscá-la.

6 E abrindo-a, viu a criança, e eis que o menino chorava; então ela teve compaixão dele, e disse: Este é um dos filhos dos hebreus.

7 Então a irmã do menino perguntou � filha de Faraó: Queres que eu te vá chamar uma ama dentre as hebréias, para que crie este menino para ti?

8 Respondeu-lhe a filha de Faraó: Vai. Foi, pois, a moça e chamou a mãe do menino.