Exodus 2:5

5. The daughter of Pharaoh came The intellectual and moral condition of women in Egypt was far higher than in Asia or in Greece . Polygamy was rare, and the harem seclusion unknown . Women were respected and honoured in society, much as in modern Europe and America, and the wives and daughters of kings succeeded to the throne of the Pharaohs . Wilkinson says, that the Egyptians recognised the fact that the morals and manners of society depended on the respect shown to women .

To wash Rather, to bathe: not to wash her clothes, as Dr . Clarke interprets, who in this case transferred to Egypt the manners of the Grecian lands in the Homeric age . The Nile was regarded as an emanation of the god Osiris, and the act of bathing in its waters was devotional as well as sanitary, for the Nile was deemed the mother of all life and fruitfulness .