Bible Strands
Exodus 2:10
When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrative shifts from the immediate nursing arrangement to a later moment when the infant has matured, and the biological mother presents him to Pharaoh’s daughter as a permanent household member.
The words — וַיִּגְדַּל (va./yig.Dal) denotes the child’s physical maturation, while לְבֵן (le./Ven) marks his legal transition into the status of a son within the palace.
The thread — This adoption event is explicitly recalled in Acts 7:21 and later contrasted with Moses’ deliberate refusal to claim that royal lineage in Hebrews 11:24.
Why it lands — The text records a political and biological reversal where an enslaved Hebrew infant secures royal protection, establishing the historical precondition for his later confrontation with Pharaoh.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Cross-references
- Acts 7:21 When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.
- Hebrews 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.
- Genesis 16:11 The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
- 1 Samuel 1:20 So in the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the LORD.”
- Matthew 1:21 She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- Galatians 4:5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
- 1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
- Genesis 4:25 And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
- Genesis 48:5 And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.