2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
2 The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
2 The woman became pregnant and had a son. She saw there was something special about him and hid him. She hid him for three months.
2 So the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months.
2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She saw that he was a special baby and kept him hidden for three months.
20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
20 "At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child.
20 At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God's sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house,
20 "In just such a time Moses was born, a most beautiful baby. He was hidden at home for three months.
20 At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father's house for three months.
20 "At that time Moses was born-a beautiful child in God's eyes. His parents cared for him at home for three months.
(Read Acts 7:17-29)
Let us not be discouraged at the slowness of the fulfilling of God's promises. Suffering times often are growing times with the church. God is preparing for his people's deliverance, when their day is darkest, and their distress deepest. Moses was exceeding fair, "fair toward God;" it is the beauty of holiness which is in God's sight of great price. He was wonderfully preserved in his infancy; for God will take special care of those of whom he designs to make special use. And did he thus protect the child Moses? Much more will he secure the interests of his holy child Jesus, from the enemies who are gathered together against him. They persecuted Stephen for disputing in defence of Christ and his gospel: in opposition to these they set up Moses and his law. They may understand, if they do not wilfully shut their eyes against the light, that God will, by this Jesus, deliver them out of a worse slavery than that of Egypt. Although men prolong their own miseries, yet the Lord will take care of his servants, and effect his own designs of mercy.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 2:2
Commentary on Exodus 2:1-4
(Read Exodus 2:1-4)
Observe the order of Providence: just at the time when Pharaoh's cruelty rose to its height by ordering the Hebrew children to be drowned, the deliverer was born. When men are contriving the ruin of the church, God is preparing for its salvation. The parents of Moses saw he was a goodly child. A lively faith can take encouragement from the least hint of the Divine favour. It is said, Hebrews 11:23, that the parents of Moses hid him by faith; they had the promise that Israel should be preserved, which they relied upon. Faith in God's promise quickens to the use of lawful means for obtaining mercy. Duty is ours, events are God's. Faith in God will set us above the fear of man. At three months' end, when they could not hide the infant any longer, they put him in an ark of bulrushes by the river's brink, and set his sister to watch. And if the weak affection of a mother were thus careful, what shall we think of Him, whose love, whose compassion is, as himself, boundless. Moses never had a stronger protection about him, no, not when all the Israelites were round his tent in the wilderness, than now, when he lay alone, a helpless babe upon the waves. No water, no Egyptian can hurt him. When we seem most neglected and forlorn, God is most present with us.