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.


In Context

3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

5 Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it.

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

7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?"

8 "Yes, go," she answered. And the girl went and got the baby'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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6And 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.

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.