![]() ![]() When Moses was born, his mother put him in an ark and placed it in the river. ![]() She is also known as The Pharaoh's wife, not daughter, in The Qur'an. In the Hadith, Bithiah is known as Asiya, one of four of "the best of women". The Midrash in Exodus Rabbah 18:3 also records that she was not affected by The 10 Plagues and her son was the only firstborn of Egypt to survive the final plague. She is mentioned in I Chronicles 4:18, as being the wife of Mered from the tribe of Judah, who is identified in The Midrash as being Caleb, one of the 12 spies. The Midrash also portrays her as a pious and devoted woman, who would bathe in The Nile to cleanse herself of the impurity of idolatrous Egypt. It relates in Leviticus Rabbah 1:3 of how God said He will take her in and call her Yah's daughter which is what “Bithiah“ meant because she took in a child not her own and called him her son "Moses" is thought to be derived from "child" in Egyptian. The Midrash identifies the two as the same person, and says she received her name, literally "daughter of Yah", because of her compassion and pity in saving the infant Moses. A daughter of Pharaoh named Bithiah is mentioned in I Chronicles 4:18. In the book of Exodus the daughter of Pharaoh who rescued Moses is not named. She was married to a Greek prince and they settled in Scotland. A Scottish legend tells about a daughter of a Pharaoh named Scota, who refused to persecute the Israelites and was banished at the time of the Exodus. Her children were Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa. Bithiah left Egypt with Moses when he ran away after killing an Egyptian slavedriver. In Jewish tradition, she was exiled by The Pharaoh for bringing Moses The Levite into the house of Pharaoh and claiming him as her own child. The Bible and Midrash both assert that she was the mother of Moses, having drawn him from The Nile and bestowed upon him his name, which in Hebrew meant "drawn out". Rabbinic interpretation Midrash of her Hebrew name states that since she took Moses in as her son though she did not give birth to him, so does God adopt her as his own daughter, naming her Batyah. Although the name of her father is not stated in Exodus, it is specified he was a Pharaoh. Bithiah was an Egyptian princess and the daughter of a Pharaoh according to The Old Testament. ![]()
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