Exodus 2:7

“Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, etc.] Miriam the sister of Moses, who observing the ark taken up, and the maidens that were walking upon the bank of the river, and other women perhaps, gathering about it to see it; she made one among them, and after hearing their discourse about it, proposed what follows to Pharaoh’s daughter: Jarchi says, that Pharaoh’s daughter tried several Egyptian women to suckle it, but it would not suck of them: Josephus f66 says the same, and it also is in the Talmud f67; and that, if true, gave Miriam a fair opportunity to offer to do the following message for her: shall I go and call for thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for…”

“2:7-9 It is evidence of God’s grace and sovereignty that Pharaoh’s daughter ironically paid Moses’ mother to nurse her own baby rather than having him killed according to Pharaoh’s command. The narrator seems to imply that the princess realized who the baby’s mother was (since she didn’t ask any embarrassing questions). If so, the two women chose to understand each other while maintaining a legal fiction. Moses was saved because God was at work, not because anyone was fooled.”

“Exo 2:4, Exo 15:20; Num 12:1, Num 26:59 Exodus 2:8”