Exodus Chapter 2 verse 6 Holy Bible
And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
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And opening it, she saw the child, and he was crying. And she had pity on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
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And she opened [it], and saw the child, and behold, the boy wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is [one] of the Hebrews' children.
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And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
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And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
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She opened it, and saw the child, and, behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
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and openeth, and seeth him -- the lad, and lo, a child weeping! and she hath pity on him, and saith, `This is `one' of the Hebrews' children.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - The princess herself opened the "ark," which was a sort of covered basket. Perhaps she suspected what she would find inside; but would it be a living or a dead child? This she could not know. She opened, and looked. It was a living babe, and it wept. At once her woman's heart, heathen as she was, went out to the child - its tears reached the common humanity that lies below all differences of race and creed - and she pitied it. "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." This is one of the Hebrews' children. Hebrew characteristics were perhaps stamped even upon the infant visage. Or she formed her conclusion merely from the circumstances. No Egyptian woman had any need to expose her child, or would be likely to do so; but it was just what a Hebrew mother, under the cruel circumstances of the time, might have felt herself forced to do. So she drew her conclusion, rapidly and decidedly, as is the way of woman.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) When she had opened it.--The princess opened the ark herself, perhaps suspecting what was inside, perhaps out of mere curiosity.The babe (rather, the boy) wept. Through hunger, or cold, or perhaps general discomfort. An ark of bulrushes could not have been a very pleasant cradle.She had compassion on him.--The babe's tears moved her to pity; and her pity prompted her to save it. She must have shown some sign of her intention--perhaps by taking the child from the ark and fondling it--before Miriam could have ventured to make her suggestion. (See the next verse.)This is one of the Hebrews' children.--The circumstances spoke for themselves. No mother would have exposed such a "goodly child" (Exodus 2:2) to so sad a death but one with whom it was a necessity.
