1. Now a man of the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi.
2. And the woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw him, that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months.
3. When she could no longer hide him, she took for him a container made of bulrushes and daubed it with tar and with pitch. She then put the child in it and set it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
4. Then his sister stood afar off so that she might know what would happen to him.
5. The daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river while her maidens walked along by the river’s side, and when she saw the container among the reeds, she sent her maid, and she retrieved it.
6. When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying. She had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
7. Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call for you a nursing woman of the Hebrew women so that she may nurse the child for you?”
8. And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the young girl went and called the child’s mother.
9. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.