Exodus 2:1-9

1Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman.

2The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.

3But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

4Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.

5Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds, sent her slave girl, took it,

6opened it, and saw him, the child — and there he was, a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.”

7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a Hebrew woman who is nursing to nurse the boy for you?”

8“Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

9Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.