Exodus 2:8

8 Pharaoh's daughter answered, "Yes, go." So the girl went and called the baby's own mother.

Exodus 2:8 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 2:8

And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, go
She fell in at once with the proposal, being, no doubt, overruled, by the providence of God, to agree to have such a person called:

and the maid went and called the child's mother;
and her own, whose name was Jochebed the wife of Amram, as observed in ( Exodus 2:1 ) .

Exodus 2:8 In-Context

6 She opened it and looked inside, and there in front of her was a crying baby boy! Moved with pity, she said, "This must be one of the Hebrews'children."
7 At this point, his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Would you like me to go and find you one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?"
8 Pharaoh's daughter answered, "Yes, go." So the girl went and called the baby's own mother.
9 Pharaoh's daughter told her, "Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will pay you for doing it." So the woman took the child and nursed it.
10 Then, when the child had grown some, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter; and she began to raise him as her son. She called him Moshe [pull out], explaining, "Because I pulled him out of the water."
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