E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Pharaoh’s Daughter,
who brought up Moses, Bathia.
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“Bathia, the daughter of Pharaoh, came, attended by her maidens, and entering the water she chanced to see the box of bulrushes, and, pitying the infant, she rescued him from death.”—The Talmud.
