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.|


In Context

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.

5 Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.

6 She 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.|

7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, |Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?|

8 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, |Go.| The maiden 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 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 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.