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Brenton's Septuagint

Exodus 2:4

And his sister was watching from a distance, to learn what would happen to him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jochebed;   Miriam;   Moses;   Servant;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Miriam;   Moses;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;   Egypt;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Miriam;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ark;   Miriam;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kenites;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ark;   Ark of Bulrushes;   Exodus, Book of;   Miriam;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Miriam;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mir'iam;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Miriam;   Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Enslavement, the;   Encampment at Sinai;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Exodus, the Book of;   Miriam;   Moses;   Wist;   Woman;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Adoption;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aaron;   Miriam;   Moses;   Soṭah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
King James Version
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
Lexham English Bible
And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.
New Century Version
The baby's sister stood a short distance away to see what would happen to him.
New English Translation
His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him.
Amplified Bible
And his sister [Miriam] stood some distance away to find out what would happen to him.
New American Standard Bible
And his sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Now his sister stood a farre off, to wit what would come of him.
Legacy Standard Bible
And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.
Contemporary English Version
The baby's older sister stood off at a distance to see what would happen to him.
Complete Jewish Bible
His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
Darby Translation
And his sister stood afar off to see what would happen to him.
Easy-to-Read Version
The baby's sister stayed and watched to see what would happen to the baby.
English Standard Version
And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.
George Lamsa Translation
And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.
Good News Translation
The baby's sister stood some distance away to see what would happen to him.
Christian Standard Bible®
Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.
Literal Translation
And his sister took her stand from a distance, to know what would be done to him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But his sister stode a farre of, to wete what wolde come of him.
American Standard Version
And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.
Bible in Basic English
And his sister took her place at a distance to see what would become of him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And his sister stoode a farre of, to wit what woulde come of it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.
King James Version (1611)
And his sister stood afarre off, to wit what would be done to him.
English Revised Version
And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.
Berean Standard Bible
And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the while his sistir stood afer, and bihelde the bifalling of the thing.
Young's Literal Translation
and his sister stationeth herself afar off, to know what is done to him.
Update Bible Version
And his sister stood far off, to know what would be done to him.
Webster's Bible Translation
And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.
World English Bible
His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
New King James Version
And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.
New Living Translation
The baby's sister then stood at a distance, watching to see what would happen to him.
New Life Bible
His sister stayed to watch and find out what would happen to him.
New Revised Standard
His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then did his sister station herself at a distance, - to see what would be done to him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.
Revised Standard Version
And his sister stood at a distance, to know what would be done to him.
THE MESSAGE
The baby's older sister found herself a vantage point a little way off and watched to see what would happen to him. Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to bathe; her maidens strolled on the bank. She saw the basket-boat floating in the reeds and sent her maid to get it. She opened it and saw the child—a baby crying! Her heart went out to him. She said, "This must be one of the Hebrew babies."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
His sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.

Contextual Overview

1 And there was a certain man of the tribe of Levi, who took to wife one of the daughters of Levi. 2 And she conceived, and bore a male child; and having seen that he was fair, they hid him three months. 3 And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the ooze by the river. 4 And his sister was watching from a distance, to learn what would happen to him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 15:20, Numbers 12:1-15, Numbers 20:1, Numbers 26:59, Micah 6:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 2:7 - General 1 Chronicles 6:3 - Miriam

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.
Genesis 1:31
And God saw all the things that he had made, and, behold, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 2:1
And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them.
Genesis 2:2
And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made.
Genesis 5:1
This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him:
Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 11:10
And these are the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
Genesis 25:12
And these are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraam, whom Agar the Egyptian the hand-maid of Sarrha bore to Abraam.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his sister stood afar off,.... This was Miriam, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; who is supposed to be about ten or twelve years of age, others say seven: she was placed e, as the word may be rendered, by her parents, or, "she placed herself" f, by their instruction, at some distance from the place where the ark was, that she might not be observed and be thought to belong to it, and yet so near as to observe what became of it, which was the intent of her standing there, as follows:

to wit what would be done to him; to know, take notice, and observe, what should happen to it, if anyone took it up, and what they did with it, and where they carried it, for, "to wit" is an old English word, which signifies "to know", and is the sense of the Hebrew word to which it answers, see 2 Corinthians 8:1.

e תתצב "collocata fuerat", Vatablus. f "Stiterat sese", Junius & Tremellius, "stitit sese", Piscator, Drusius.


 
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