Lectionary Calendar
Friday, July 18th, 2025
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
Attention!
For 10¢ a day you can enjoy StudyLight.org ads
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!

Read the Bible

Geneva Bible

Exodus 2:8

And Pharaohs daughter sayde to her, Goe. So the maide went and called the childes mother,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Miriam;   Moses;   Virgin;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Miriam;   Wean;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Miriam;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Maid, Maiden;   Miriam;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Virgin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Miriam;   Moses;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pharaoh's Daughter,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Enslavement, the;   Encampment at Sinai;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Exodus, the Book of;   Maid;   Moses;   Pharaoh's Daughter;   Virgin;   Woman;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Adoption;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Michael;   Moses;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Par`oh's daughter said to her, "Go." The almah went and called the child's mother.
King James Version
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
Lexham English Bible
And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, "Go." And the girl went, and she called the mother of the boy.
New Century Version
The king's daughter said, "Go!" So the girl went and got the baby's own mother.
New English Translation
Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Yes, do so." So the young girl went and got the child's mother.
Amplified Bible
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go ahead." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
New American Standard Bible
Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go ahead." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
Contemporary English Version
"Yes," the king's daughter answered. So the girl brought the baby's mother,
Complete Jewish Bible
Pharaoh's daughter answered, "Yes, go." So the girl went and called the baby's own mother.
Darby Translation
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the damsel went and called the child's mother.
Easy-to-Read Version
The king's daughter said, "Yes, please." So the girl went and brought the baby's own mother.
English Standard Version
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
George Lamsa Translation
And Pharaohs daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and called the childs mother.
Good News Translation
"Please do," she answered. So the girl went and brought the baby's own mother.
Christian Standard Bible®
“Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother.
Literal Translation
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and called the child's mother.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Pharaos doughter sayde vnto her: Go thy waye. The mayde wente, and called the childes mother.
American Standard Version
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child's mother.
Bible in Basic English
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and got the child's mother.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Pharaos daughter aunswered her: go. And the mayde ranne and called the chyldes mother.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: 'Go.' And the maiden went and called the child's mother.
King James Version (1611)
And Pharaohs daughter said to her, Goe: And the mayd went and called the childs mother.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the daughter of Pharao said, Go: and the young woman went, and called the mother of the child.
English Revised Version
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
Berean Standard Bible
"Go ahead," Pharaoh's daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy's mother.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
She answeride, Go thou. The damysel yede, and clepide the `modir of the child.
Young's Literal Translation
and the daughter of Pharaoh saith to her, `Go;' and the virgin goeth, and calleth the mother of the lad,
Update Bible Version
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child's mother.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
World English Bible
Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The maiden went and called the child's mother.
New King James Version
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the maiden went and called the child's mother.
New Living Translation
"Yes, do!" the princess replied. So the girl went and called the baby's mother.
New Life Bible
Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
New Revised Standard
Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Yes." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her - Go. So the maid went, and called the mother of the child.
Douay-Rheims Bible
She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.
Revised Standard Version
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
THE MESSAGE
Pharaoh's daughter said, "Yes. Go." The girl went and called the child's mother.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go ahead." So the girl went and called the child's mother.

Contextual Overview

5 Then ye daughter of Pharaoh came downe to wash her in the riuer, and her maidens walked by the riuers side: and when shee sawe the arke among the bulrushes, she sent her maide to fet it. 6 Then she opened it, and sawe it was a childe: and beholde, the babe wept: so she had compassion on it, and sayde, This is one of the Ebrewes children. 7 Then said his sister vnto Pharaohs daughter, Shall I go and cal vnto thee a nurce of the Ebrew women to nurce thee the childe? 8 And Pharaohs daughter sayde to her, Goe. So the maide went and called the childes mother, 9 To whome Pharaohs daughter sayde, Take this childe away, and nurce it for me, and I wil reward thee. Then the woman tooke the childe and nurced him. 10 Nowe the childe grewe, and she brought him vnto Pharaohs daughter, and he was as her sonne, and she called his name Moses, because, said she, I drewe him out of the water.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Go: Psalms 27:10, Isaiah 46:3, Isaiah 46:4, Ezekiel 16:8

mother: Exodus 6:20

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:35 - I hear Isaiah 7:15 - Butter

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.
Genesis 2:9
(For out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meate: the tree of life also in the middes of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and of euill.
Genesis 3:24
Thus he cast out man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sworde shaken, to keepe the way of the tree of life.
Genesis 4:16
Then Kain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod towarde the Eastside of Eden.
Genesis 13:10
So when Lot lifted vp his eyes, he saw that all the plaine of Iorden was watered euery where: (for before the Lorde destroyed Sodom and Gomorah, it was as the garden of the Lorde, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest vnto Zoar)
2 Kings 19:12
Haue the gods of the heathen deliuered them which my fathers haue destroyed? as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which were in Thelasar?
Isaiah 51:3
Surely the Lord shall comfort Zion: he shal comfort all her desolations, and he shall make her desert like Eden, and her wildernes like the garden of the Lord: ioy and gladnesse shalbe founde therein: praise, and the voyce of singing.
Ezekiel 27:23
They of Haram and Canneh and Eden, the marchants of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad were thy marchants.
Ezekiel 28:13
Thou hast ben in Eden the garden of God: euery precious stone was in thy garment, the rubie, the topaze and the diamonde, the chrysolite, the onix, and the iasper, the saphir, emeraude, and the carbuncle and golde: the woorkemanship of thy timbrels, & of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Ezekiel 31:16
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him downe to hell with them that descend into the pit, & all the excellent trees of Eden, and the best of Lebanon: euen all that are nourished with waters, shall be comforted in the nether partes of the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, go,.... She fell in at once with the proposal, being, no doubt, overruled, by the providence of God, to agree to have such a person called:

and the maid went and called the child's mother; and her own, whose name was Jochebed the wife of Amram, as observed in Exodus 2:1.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile