Jubilees on Pharaoh’s Daughter

Jubilees 47:5

Mid-2nd Century BCE

At that time Tarmuth, Pharaoh’s daughter, went out to bathe in the river and heard you [Moses] crying. She told her slaves to bring you, so they brought you to her.

Translated by James C. VanderKam.

Credits

Jubilees 47:5, trans. James C. VanderKam, in James C. VanderKam, Jubilees: A Commentary in Two Volumes, vol. 1, ed. Sidnie White Crawford, Hermeneia: A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018), p. 1136. Used with permission of 1517 Media.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.

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