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22 Then Pharaoh spoke to all the Egyptian people. He said, ‘When an Israelite boy is born, you must throw him in the river Nile. But you can let the baby girls live.’

The birth of Moses

At this time, there was an Israelite man who belonged to the family of Levi. He married a woman who was also a descendant of Levi. The woman became pregnant and she gave birth to a son. She saw that he was a beautiful boy. So she hid him for three months.