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The Exposition of Moses, as his mother casts him off. The princess's party is further down the bank. Nicolas Poussin. The less common preceding scene of Moses being left in the reeds is formally called""' The Exposition of Moses'"". [6] In some depictions, this is shown in the distance as a subsidiary scene, and some books show both scenes.
The Exodus 2:5) does not give a name to Pharaoh's daughter or to her father; she is referred to in Hebrew as Baṯ-Parʿo (Hebrew: בת־פרעה), "daughter of Pharaoh." [1] The Book of Jubilees 47:5 and Josephus both call her Thermouthis (Greek: Θερμουθις), also transliterated as Tharmuth and Thermutis, the Greek name of Renenutet, a fertility deity depicted as an Egyptian cobra.
A painting by Konstantin Flavitsky of Pharaoh's daughter finding Moses, who is in a basket.. The ark of bulrushes (Hebrew: תבת גמא, romanized: têḇaṯ gōme) was a container which, according to the episode known as the finding of Moses in the biblical Book of Exodus, carried the infant Moses.
Finding of the baby Moses, by Konstantin Dmitriyevich Flavitsky. Then God sent a fierce heat upon Egypt, [19] and Pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, [20] who was afflicted with leprosy, went to bathe in the river. Hearing a child cry, she beheld a casket in the reeds. She caused it to be brought to her and, on touching it, was cured of her leprosy. [21]
Several stories in the Hebrew Bible bear similarity to the Judgment of Solomon and scholars think they allude to it. The most similar story is that of the two cannibal mothers in 2 Kings 6:24–33, which forms part of the Elisha cycle. The background is a famine in Samaria, caused by a siege on the city. As the king passes through the city, a ...
The infant, later nicknamed "Baby Moses," was found drowned in a waterway with a freshly cut umbilical cord. Officials plan to exhume the baby's body, and police are expected to give more ...
When Moses, her youngest child, was born, Jochebed hid him for three months until she could hide him no longer. To save her son's life, she waterproofed a basket and put the child in it. Jochebed placed Moses in a basket and released him in the flow of River Nile. The basket fell in the hands of the Pharaoh's daughter who was bathing in the river.
The baby, dubbed "Angel Baby Doe," was found in November 2001 by a man collecting cans south of Fort Worth. The sheriff's office, which initially responded to the scene, said that the baby was ...