And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
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Gill's Exposition
And when he was cast out,.... Into the river, or by the river, as some copies read; the Syriac version adds, by his own people; by his father and mother and sister; who might be all concerned in it,…
Barnes' Notes
Was cast out - When he was exposed on the banks of the Nile, Exo 2:3. And nourished him - Adopted him, and treated him as her own son, Exo 2:10. It is implied in this that he was educated by her. An…
Stephen here goes on to relate,
I. The wonderful increase of the people of Israel in Egypt; it was by a wonder of providence that in a little time they advanced from a family into a nation. 1. It was…
Cambridge Bible
nourished him for her own son Jewish tradition says that the king had no son, and so Moses was designed by the king's daughter to succeed to the kingdom. Josephus (Antiq. ii. 9. 7), where she speaks…