<p>7:21 <em>And when he was cast out</em>- A related word to that used in :19 &quot;casting out their babies so that they might not live&quot;; see note there. The picture here presented is of Jochebed being technically obedient to the commandment to cast her baby into the river; by gently laying the child in an ark in the river. And it seems that no sooner had she done so, committing the baby to God's care, along walked Pharaoh's daughter and picked him up out of the water. Stephen describes the &lsquo;putting out&rsquo; of Moses with the same word used in the LXX for what happened to Israel (Ez. 16:5; Ex. 2:3 LXX). Moses is set up as example and representative of his people Israel. Israel is likened in Ez. 16:5 to a child rejected at birth, but miraculously found and cared for, and brought up with every pampered blessing. Just as Moses was.</p><p><em>Pharaoh's daughter took him up</em>- She called him 'Moses' because she had drawn him out of the water (Ex. 2:10). But the Hebrew <em>mashah</em>, 'drawn out', is used in the sense of deliverance. And this is from whence <em>Mosheh </em>'Moses'; the same consonants are in both words. Indeed, the idea of being drawn out of waters means just that (Ps. 18:16). So we are to imagine the baby about to drown, and the princess saving his life.</p><p><em>And nourished him as her own son</em>- Moses would therefore have been next in line to the throne; and he gave up all that for the sake of trying to save a bunch of down and outs who didn't appreciate him anyway.</p>