Moses’ sister who was standing and watching from nearby, offers to find a Hebrew midwife to nurse the child, and she calls the boy’s mother, who then is hired as nursemaid. She took pity on it and said, 'This must be a Hebrew child.' 2:6 When she opened it, she saw that it was a child, a boy crying. She spied the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to fetch it. Exod 2:5 The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the Nile, while her maidens walked along the Nile.