She is also viewed by some rabbis as having served as the inspiration for the description of the woman or wife of noble character in Proverbs 31:10-31. According to Jewish tradition, Pharaoh's daughter celebrated the first Passover Seder with Moses in the quarters of the Hebrew slaves at the time of the exodus, and also was later taken alive directly to heaven (rather than dying). To my knowledge, that is the only other specific reference to her in the Bible.Īside from the Bible, there are mentions of her in both Jewish and Muslim tradition. Ishbah, in turn, was the father of Eshtemoa. However, 1 Chronicles 4:17 (where Pharaoh's daughter's name is mentioned as Bithia) indicates that she married a man from the Israelite tribe of Judah named Mered (thus indicating that she had at some point apparently converted to Judaism), and also had children with him named Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah. Army To my knowledge, there are no later mentions of Pharaoh's daughter in the book of Exodus itself subsequent to the account of her finding and adopting Moses in Exodus 2:1-10.
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