Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Exodus 2:8
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“Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.
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And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.
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Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The young woman went and called the child’s mother.
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And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child’s mother.
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Exodus 2
6 When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”
8 “Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.
9 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.
10 When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
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