Exodus 2:6
Good News Translation
The princess opened it and saw a baby boy. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said.

New Revised Standard Version
When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him. “This must be one of the Hebrews’ children,” she said.

Contemporary English Version
When the king's daughter opened the basket, she saw the baby crying and felt sorry for him. She said, "This must be one of the Hebrew babies."

New American Bible
On opening it, she looked, and there was a baby boy crying! She was moved with pity for him and said, “It is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.

she had compassion.

1 Kings 8:50 And forgive thy people, that have sinned against thee, and all their iniquities, by which they have transgressed against thee: and give them mercy before them that have made them captives, that they may have compassion on them.

Nehemiah 1:11 I beseech thee, O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy name: and direct thy servant this day, and give him mercy before this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

Psalm 106:46 And he gave them unto mercies, in the sight of all those that had made them captives.

Proverbs 21:1 As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever he will, he shall turn it.

Acts 7:21 And when he was exposed, Pharao's daughter took him up and nourished him for her own son.

1 Peter 3:8 And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:

Context
Pharaoh's Daughter Rescues Moses
5And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought, 6She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.7And the child's sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?…
Cross References
Exodus 2:5
And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought,

Exodus 2:7
And the child's sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?

Jeremiah 34:9
That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free: and that they should not lord it over them, to wit, over the Jews their brethren.

Exodus 2:5
Top of Page
Top of Page