Holy Scripture
Exodus 2:3
A church father on this verse
“Thus Moses in a former age Escaped proud Pharaoh's foolish law, And as the savior of his race Prefigured Christ who was to come. A cruel edict had been passed Forbidding Hebrew mothers all, When sons were born to them, to rear These virile pledges of their love. Devoutly scornful of the king, A zealous midwife found a…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the ooze by the river.
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1And there was a certain man of the tribe of Levi, who took to wife one of the daughters of Levi.
2And she conceived, and bore a male child; and having seen that he was fair, they hid him three months.
— Exodus 2:3 —
4And his sister was watching from a distance, to learn what would happen to him.
5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to the river to bathe; and her maids walked by the river’s side, and having seen the ark in the ooze, she sent her maid, and took it up.