Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent a girl to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him.

His sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go get a woman to care for the baby?”

“Yes, go,” she answered. And Miriam went and got the baby’s mother.

When he was older, Pharaoh’s daughter took him to be her own son. She named him Moses.