Exodus 2:10

Amplified Bible

¹⁰And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. And she named him ^[a]Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

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Footnotes

Exodus 2:10 The name Moses is a wonderful choice. It means “drawing out” in Hebrew, but in Egyptian, a similar word means “man of royalty” (e.g. the syllable “mose” in names like Thutmose).

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