Exodus 2:5
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| Overview - Exodus 2 | |
| 1 | Moses is born, and in an ark cast into the flags. |
| 5 | He is found, and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter; |
| 7 | who employs his mother to nurse him. |
| 11 | He slays an Egyptian. |
| 13 | He reproves an Hebrew. |
| 15 | He flees into Midian, and marries Zipporah. |
| 22 | Gershom is born. |
| 23 | God respects the Israelites' cry. |
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Exodus 2:5 (King James Version)
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
- daughter
- Acts 7:21
- herself
- As the word herself is not in the original, Dr
- A. Clarke is of opinion that it was for the purpose of washing, not her person, but her clothes, that Pharaoh's daughter came to the river; which was an employment not beneath even king's daughters in those primitive times.
- when she
- 1 Kings 17:6 ; Psalms 9:9 ; 12:5 46:1 76:10 Proverbs 21:1 ; Jonah 1:17 ; 2:10