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Exodus 2:6

World English Bible

She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

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Exodus 2:6 in other translations

And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.

Exodus 2:6 · American Standard Version

Exodus 2:6 in context

  1. 4His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
  2. 5Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.
  3. 6She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
  4. 7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
  5. 8Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.”
    The young woman went and called the child’s mother.