After
many years, another king ruled Egypt, who knew not Joseph, and he made slaves
of the children of Israel, and cruelly treated them.
And
Pharaoh said to all his people, “Every son that is born to them ye shall cast
into the river.” So the cruel Egyptians drowned all the little boys of the
children of Israel.
But
when Moses was born, his mother hid him for three months.
When
she could hide him no longer, she made for him an ark of bulrushes, and covered
it with pitch, and put him in it, and she laid it in the flags by the river’s
brink.
And
his sister stood by the river to see what would become of him.
Now
Pharaoh’s daughter came down to the river and she saw the ark in the river, and
she sent her maid to fetch it.
When
it was brought to her, the babe wept. And she pitied it, and said, “This is one
of the Hebrews’ children.”
Then
said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nurse of the
Hebrew women to nurse him for thee.” And she said, “Go.” So she went and
fetched Moses’ own mother.
And
Moses was brought up by Pharaoh’s daughter in the palace, and he became her
son.