he would some day be taken away from her. And the daughter of Pharaoh provided all that was needful for the well-being and comfort of mother and son.

As soon as he was grown to be of an age when he no longer needed her, his mother brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh. She rejoiced at it. Slaves were appointed whose only service it was to wait upon him and to bring him up as if he were by birth and right of the royal house. The princess treated him in all things as if he were her own son, and she called him Moses, ‘Child of the Waters’, for—as if some compassionate divinity had hidden him there—had she not found him among the reeds and rushes by the river’s brink?