Exodus 2:5

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Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Egypt is the land where Israel was enslaved and where Pharaoh’s daughter found the infant Moses in the Nile, the river central to Egypt’s life and agriculture. Midian, east of Egypt across the Sinai region, becomes significant soon afterward as Moses flees there from Pharaoh.

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Exodus 2:5 mentions Egypt, Midian and Nile.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato