Exodus 2:4

World English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹ A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. ² The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. ³ When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank. ⁴ His sister stood far off, to see what would be done 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 created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:4
God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Genesis 1:31
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 2:1
The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 2:2
On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.

Genesis 10:1
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 11:10
This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Genesis 25:12
Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.

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.