Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became  pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child,  she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer,  she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then  she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of  the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to  him. Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her  attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among  the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. She opened it and saw the  baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the  Hebrew babies,” she said. Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter,  “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”  “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother.  Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me,  and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. When the  child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her  son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”