Moses Mother
Hebrew · Levite originA Levite woman who hides her newborn son for three months, places him in a papyrus basket among the reeds, and is later hired by Pharaoh's daughter to nurse her own child.
- Meaning
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- Occupation
- Nurse
- First mention
- Exodus 2:1
Scripture references
- Exodus 2:1
There was a man descended from Levi who had taken a woman of Levi as his wife.
- Exodus 2:2
She conceived and gave birth to a son and, seeing what a fine child he was, she kept him hidden for three months.
- Exodus 2:3
When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him; coating it with bitumen and pitch, she put the child inside and laid it among the reeds at the River's edge.
- Exodus 2:8
'Yes,' said Pharaoh's daughter, and the girl went and called the child's own mother.
- Exodus 2:9
Pharaoh's daughter said to her, 'Take this child away and nurse it for me. I shall pay you myself for doing so.' So the woman took the child away and nursed it.