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Thermuthis was the king's daughter. She was now diverting herself
by the banks of the river; and seeing a cradle borne along by the current,
she sent some that could swim, and bid them bring the cradle to her. When
those that were sent on this errand came to her with the cradle, and she
saw the little child, she was greatly in love with it, on account of its
largeness and beauty; for God had taken such great care in the formation
of Moses, that he caused him to be thought worthy of bringing up, and providing
for, by all those that had taken the most fatal resolutions, on account
of the dread of his nativity, for the destruction of the rest of the Hebrew
nation. Thermuthis bid them bring her a woman that might afford her breast
to the child; yet would not the child admit of her breast, but turned away
from it, and did the like to many other women. Now Miriam was by when this
happened, not to appear to be there on purpose, but only as staying to
see the child; and she said, "It is in vain that thou, O queen,
callest for these women for the nourishing of the child, who are no way
of kin to it; but still, if thou wilt order one of the Hebrew women to
be brought, perhaps it may admit the breast of one of its own nation."
Now since she seemed to speak well, Thermuthis bid her procure such a one,
and to bring one of those Hebrew women that gave suck. So when she had
such authority given her, she came back and brought the mother, who was
known to nobody there. And now the child gladly admitted the breast, and
seemed to stick close to it; and so it was, that, at the queen's desire,
the nursing of the child was entirely intrusted to the mother.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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