Exodus 2:9

9 Pharaoh's daughter told her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me. I'll pay you." The woman took the child and nursed him.

Exodus 2:9 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 2:9

And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her
Being come, having made all possible haste:

take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy
wages;
by which means she had not only the nursing of her own child, but was paid for it: according to a Jewish writer ^F20, Pharaoh's daughter agreed with her for two pieces of silver a day.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Dibre Hayamim; sive Chronicon Mosis, fol. 4. 1.

Exodus 2:9 In-Context

7 Then his sister was before her: "Do you want me to go and get a nursing mother from the Hebrews so she can nurse the baby for you?"

8 Pharaoh's daughter said, "Yes. Go." The girl went and called the child's mother.

9 Pharaoh's daughter told her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me. I'll pay you." The woman took the child and nursed him.

10 After the child was weaned, she presented him to Pharaoh's daughter who adopted him as her son. She named him Moses (Pulled-Out), saying, "I pulled him out of the water."

11 Time passed. Moses grew up. One day he went and saw his brothers, saw all that hard labor. Then he saw an Egyptian hit a Hebrew - one of his relatives!