6And she opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the boy wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.


In Context

3 And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of reeds, and plastered it with resin and with pitch, and put the child in it, and laid it in the sedge on the bank of the river.

4 And his sister stood afar off to see what would happen to him.

5 And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the river; and her maids went along by the river's side. And she saw the ark in the midst of the sedge, and sent her handmaid and fetched it.

6 And she opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the boy wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

7 And his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call thee a wet-nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the damsel went and called the child's mother.

Exodus 2:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:6And when she had opened [it,] she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This [is one] of the Hebrews’ children.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:6She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:6She opened it and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:6And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews children.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:6And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, |This is one of the Hebrews' children.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6and openeth, and seeth him — the lad, and lo, a child weeping! and she hath pity on him, and saith, 'This is one of the Hebrews' children.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:6And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.