John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 2:7

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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 thee? for she perceived that she was desirous of having the child brought up as her own.

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