Thermutis

Also known as: Bithiah / princess · Family: Egyptians · Role: Pharaoh's daughter · First appears: Moses Rescued From The Water

When Thermutis found Moses in the Nile, touching his ark brought her leprosy to an end. Moved by his and Aaron’s crying, she resolved to save him, and when Miriam brought Jochebed to nurse him, she entrusted the child to her care. At the end of two years, Jochebed brought Moses to the palace, where Thermutis named him Moses because she had drawn him from the water.

At court, Thermutis pretended for some time that she was pregnant so Moses could receive the treatment of a prince. She adopted him as her son and presented him to Pharaoh as heir to the kingdom. She was also known as Bithiah, a name given to her as “the daughter of God.” Later, she married Caleb.

Relationship record

Life events

• Thermutis pulled Moses's ark from the water, and her leprosy departed.(Moses Rescued From The Water · 📍 Nile)
  • With: Moses
  • “No sooner had she touched it than the leprosy afflicting her departed from her.”
• Thermutis took pity on Moses and resolved to save him.(Moses Rescued From The Water)
  • With: Moses
  • “His vehement weeping and the weeping of Aaron, who was lying beside him, touched the princess, and in her pity she resolved to save him.”
• Miriam brought Jochebed to nurse Moses, and Thermutis entrusted the child to her care.(Moses Rescued From The Water)
  • With: Miriam Jochebed Moses
  • “The princess committed the child to Jochebed's care, saying these words, which contained an unconscious divination: ‘Here is what is thine.’”
• Jochebed took Moses to the palace, where Bithiah named him Moses.(The Infancy Of Moses)
  • With: Moses Jochebed
  • “When Jochebed took the child to the palace at the end of two years, Pharaoh's daughter called him Moses, because she had ‘drawn’ him out of the water, and because he would ‘draw’ the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt in a day to come.”
• God called Pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, meaning "the daughter of God."(The Infancy Of Moses)
  • “He said to the princess: ‘Moses was not thy child, yet thou didst treat him as such. For this I will call thee My daughter, though thou art not My daughter,’ and therefore the princess, the daughter of Pharaoh, bears the name Bithiah, ‘the daughter of God.’”
• Bithiah married Caleb.(The Infancy Of Moses)
  • With: Caleb
  • “She married Caleb later on, and he was a suitable husband for her.”
• Bithiah pretended she was pregnant so Moses could receive princely treatment at court.(The Infancy Of Moses · 📍 the palace)
  • With: Moses
  • “That Moses might receive the treatment at court usually accorded to a prince, Bithiah pretended that she was with child for some time before she had him fetched away from his parents' house.”
• Bithiah adopted Moses as her son and presented him to Pharaoh as heir to the kingdom.(The Infancy Of Moses)
  • With: Moses
  • “The daughter of Pharaoh, perceiving Moses to be an extraordinary lad, adopted him as her son, for she had no child of her own. She informed her father of her intention concerning him, in these words: ‘I have brought up a child, who is divine in form and of an excellent mind, and as I received him through the bounty of the river in a wonderful way, I have thought it proper to adopt him as my son and as the heir of thy kingdom.’”

Moses Rescued From The Water

• parent: Malol “Thermutis, the daughter of Pharaoh”

The Infancy Of Moses

• ward: Moses “The daughter of Pharaoh, perceiving Moses to be an extraordinary lad, adopted him as her son, for she had no child of her own.”
• parent: Malol “She informed her father of her intention concerning him, in these words:”
• married with Caleb “She married Caleb later on, and he was a suitable husband for her.”

Moses Rescued By Gabriel

• parent: Malol “his daughter Bithiah with the infant Moses upon her lap at his left”
• ward: Moses “and his foster-mother snatched him away, and she had him educated with great care,”

A Bloody Remedy

• parent: Malol “He had three sons and two daughters by the queen Alfar'anit, beside children from concubines. The name of his first-born was Atro, the name of the second Adikam, and of the third Moryon. The name of the older daughter was Bithiah, and of the other, Akuzit.”
• parent: Alfar'anit “He had three sons and two daughters by the queen Alfar'anit, beside children from concubines. The name of his first-born was Atro, the name of the second Adikam, and of the third Moryon. The name of the older daughter was Bithiah, and of the other, Akuzit.”

The Redemption Of Israel From Egyptian Bondage

• ward: Moses “Pharaoh was accompanied by his daughter Bithiah, Moses' foster-mother.”
• siblings with Adikam “Of what advantage is my security to me, when I see the king, my brother, and all his household, and his servants in this evil plight, and look upon their first-born perishing with all the first-born of Egypt?”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume II. Made with Rho MD.