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Exodus 2:6
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- CondensedParallel Translations
sed fons ascendebat e terra, irrigans universam superficiem terr�.
aperiens, cernensque in ea parvulum vagientem, miserta ejus, ait: De infantibus Hebr�orum est hic.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
she had compassion: 1 Kings 8:50, Nehemiah 1:11, Psalms 106:46, Proverbs 21:1, Acts 7:21, 1 Peter 3:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 14:13 - the Jeremiah 34:9 - Hebrew Luke 10:33 - he had
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And when she had opened it,.... The ark, for it was shut or covered over, though doubtless there were some apertures for respiration:
she saw the child [in it], and, behold, the babe wept; and which was a circumstance, it is highly probable, greatly affected the king's daughter, and moved her compassion to it; though an Arabic writer says p, she heard the crying of the child in the ark, and therefore sent for it:
and she had compassion on him, and said, this is one of the Hebrews' children; which she might conclude from its being thus exposed, knowing her father's edict, and partly from the form and beauty of it, Hebrew children not being swarthy and tawny as Egyptian ones: the Jewish writers q say, she knew it by its being circumcised, the Egyptians not yet using circumcision.
p Patricides apud Hottinger. p 401. q T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 12. 2. Aben Ezra in loc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
She had compassion on him - The Egyptians regarded such tenderness as a condition of acceptance on the day of reckoning. In the presence of the Lord of truth each spirit had to answer, “I have not afflicted any man, I have not made any man weep, I have not withheld milk from the mouths of sucklings” (‘Funeral Ritual’). There was special ground for mentioning the feeling, since it led the princess to save and adopt the child in spite of her father’s commands.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 2:6. She had compassion on him — The sight of a beautiful babe in distress could not fail to make the impression here mentioned; Exodus 2:2; Exodus 2:2. It has already been conjectured that the cruel edict of the Egyptian king did not continue long in force; see Exodus 1:22. And it will not appear unreasonable to suppose that the circumstance related here might have brought about its abolition. The daughter of Pharaoh, struck with the distressed state of the Hebrew children from what she had seen in the case of Moses, would probably implore her father to abolish this sanguinary edict.
