1. Exode 2:4 (NEG79)
  2. Explication du texte

Why did Moses’ mother put the basket with the baby on the Nile?

Exode 2:4 (NEG79)

4 La sœur de l'enfant se tint à quelque distance, pour savoir ce qui lui arriverait.

Pharaoh has ordered to cast newborn boys in the Nile, but Moses’ mother places him in a basket on the Nile. She gives her own interpretation to Pharaoh’s order, not to kill the child but to save his live.