An Ark In The Bulrushes

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying: Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall let live. And a man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw him that he was good, she hid him three months. And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and with pitch, and she put the child in it and laid it in the reeds by the bank of the river. And his sister stood far off, to know what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens walked along by the riverside, and she saw the ark among the reeds and sent her handmaid to fetch it. And she opened it and saw the child, and behold, a boy was crying, and she had compassion on him and said: This is one of the Hebrews' children. Then his sister said to the daughter of Pharaoh: Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you? And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her: Go. And the young girl went and called the child's mother. And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her: Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it. And the child grew, and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and she said: Because I drew him out of the water.