Devine Scripture

Exodus 2:4

Exodus chapter 2 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

Context

v.3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.

v.4This passage

v.5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Numbers 26:59

    And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

  • Numbers 20:1

    And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

  • Micah 6:4

    For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

  • Exodus 15:20

    And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

  • Numbers 12:1

    And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.