Exodus 2:6

New American Bible - revised edition

On opening it, she looked, and there was a baby boy crying! She was moved with pity for him and said, “It is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

Cross References

1 Kings 8:50

Forgive your people who have sinned against you and all the offenses they have committed against you, and grant them mercy in the sight of their captors, so that these will be merciful to them.

Nehemiah 1:11

Lord, may your ears be attentive to the prayer of your servant and that of all your servants who willingly revere your name. Grant success to your servant this day, and let him find favor with this man”—for I was cupbearer to the king.

Psalm 106:46

Winning for them compassion from all who held them captive.

Exodus 1:22

Pharaoh then commanded all his people, “Throw into the Nile every boy that is born, but you may let all the girls live.”

Exodus 2:5

Then Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the Nile, while her attendants walked along the bank of the Nile. Noticing the basket among the reeds, she sent her handmaid to fetch it.

Exodus 2:7

Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and summon a Hebrew woman to nurse the child for you?”

Proverbs 21:1

A king’s heart is channeled water in the hand of the Lord; God directs it where he pleases.

Jeremiah 34:9

Everyone must free their Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should hold another Judahite in servitude.

Acts 7:21

but when he was exposed, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

1 Peter 3:8

Finally, all of you, be of one mind, sympathetic, loving toward one another, compassionate, humble.