Éxodo 2:4

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4 Pero la hermana del ni帽o se qued贸 a cierta distancia para ver qu茅 pasar铆a con 茅l.

Éxodo 2:4 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 2:4

And his sister stood afar off
This was Miriam, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; who is supposed to be about ten or twelve years of age, others say seven: she was placed F5, as the word may be rendered, by her parents, or, "she placed herself" F6, by their instruction, at some distance from the place where the ark was, that she might not be observed and be thought to belong to it, and yet so near as to observe what became of it, which was the intent of her standing there, as follows:

to wit what would be done to him;
to know, take notice, and observe, what should happen to it, if anyone took it up, and what they did with it, and where they carried it, for, "to wit" is an old English word, which signifies "to know", and is the sense of the Hebrew word to which it answers, see ( 2 Corinthians 8:1 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F5 (butt) "collocata fuerat", Vatablus.
F6 "Stiterat sese", Junius & Tremellius, "stitit sese", Piscator, Drusius.
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Éxodo 2:4 In-Context

2 La mujer qued贸 embarazada y tuvo un hijo, y al verlo tan hermoso lo escondi贸 durante tres meses.
3 Cuando ya no pudo seguir ocult谩ndolo, prepar贸 una cesta de papiro, la embadurn贸 con brea y asfalto y, poniendo en ella al ni帽o, fue a dejar la cesta entre los juncos que hab铆a a la orilla del Nilo.
4 Pero la hermana del ni帽o se qued贸 a cierta distancia para ver qu茅 pasar铆a con 茅l.
5 En eso, la hija del fara贸n baj贸 a ba帽arse en el Nilo. Sus doncellas, mientras tanto, se paseaban por la orilla del r铆o. De pronto la hija del fara贸n vio la cesta entre los juncos, y orden贸 a una de sus esclavas que fuera por ella.
6 Cuando la hija del fara贸n abri贸 la cesta y vio all铆 dentro un ni帽o que lloraba, le tuvo compasi贸n y exclam贸:鈥斅s un ni帽o hebreo!
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