Exodus Chapter 2 verse 2 Holy Bible
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
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And she became with child and gave birth to a Son; and when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she kept him secretly for three months.
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And the woman conceived, and bore a son. And she saw him that he was fair, and hid him three months.
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And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
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And the woman conceived, and bore a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
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The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
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and the woman conceiveth, and beareth a son, and she seeth him that he `is' fair, and she hideth him three months,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - And the woman conceived. Not for the first time, as appears from ver. 4, nor even for the second, as we learn from Exodus 7:7; but for the third. Aaron was three years old when Moses was born. As no difficulty has occurred with respect to him, we must regard the edict as issued between his birth and that of Moses. When she saw that he was a goodly child. Perhaps Jochebed would have done the same had Moses been ill-favoured, for mothers have often loved best their weakest and sickliest; but still it nard-rally seemed to her the harder that she was called upon to lose a strong and beautiful baby; and this is what the writer means to express - the clauses are not "simply co-ordinate." She hid him - i.e, kept him within the house - perhaps even in the female apartments. Egyptians were mixed up with the Israelites in Goshen - not perhaps in any great numbers, but still so that no Hebrew felt himself safe from observation.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) When she saw him that he was a goodly child.--St. Stephen says, that Moses was" comely before God"-- ??????? ?? ??? (Acts 7:20). Trogus Pompeius spoke of him as recommended by the beauty of his personal appearance (ap. Justin, Hist. Philipp. xxvi. 2). His infantine "goodliness" intensified the desire of his mother to save his life, but must not be re garded as the main cause of her anxiety.She hid him three months.--As long as she could hope to conceal him effectually. It must be remembered that Egyptians were mixed up with Israelites in Goshen, and that each Hebrew household would be subjected to espionage from the time of the issue of the edict.
