Exodus 2:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸ “Please do,” she answered. So the girl went and brought the baby's own mother. ⁹ The princess told the woman, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So she took the baby and nursed him. ^10 (A)Later, when the child was old enough, she took him to the king's daughter, who adopted him as her own son. She said to herself, “I pulled him out of the water, and so I name him Moses.”^[a]