Reading Shemot 2 against its own vocabulary rather than the English translation turns up something worth sitting with.
Shemot 2:10 does not say Pharaoh's daughter bore Moses.
The chapter has already used ordinary birth language when his mother gives birth to him. Instead, it says: vayehi-lah l'ven — "he became to her as a son." That construction resembles relational language Torah uses elsewhere when a new household status is established, as when Rebekah "became to Isaac as a wife" in Bereshit 24.
The wording is not identical, but the pattern is striking: the text describes a recognized relationship coming into being, not a biological birth. Torah is not describing biology in verse 10. It is recording conferred sonship.
For those who read the Hebrew regularly — does hayah l'ven read to you as conferred status the way I'm reading it, or am I overextending the parallel to Bereshit 24?
Shemot 2:10 does not say Pharaoh's daughter bore Moses.
The chapter has already used ordinary birth language when his mother gives birth to him. Instead, it says: vayehi-lah l'ven — "he became to her as a son." That construction resembles relational language Torah uses elsewhere when a new household status is established, as when Rebekah "became to Isaac as a wife" in Bereshit 24.
The wording is not identical, but the pattern is striking: the text describes a recognized relationship coming into being, not a biological birth. Torah is not describing biology in verse 10. It is recording conferred sonship.
For those who read the Hebrew regularly — does hayah l'ven read to you as conferred status the way I'm reading it, or am I overextending the parallel to Bereshit 24?
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