Miriam has been watching, and now she moves. She approaches Pharaoh's daughter and asks: shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you? The question is perfectly calibrated — it does not reveal the family connection, it presents itself as a practical service, and it positions itself as helpful to the very person who holds Moses' future in her hands. This is not deception for its own sake but wisdom under pressure, the kind of shrewd faithfulness that Proverbs 8:12 associates with wisdom dwelling alongside prudence. Miriam, a young girl in a slave community, is negotiating with royalty on behalf of her infant brother, and she is doing it with composure. The New Testament equivalent is perhaps the women at the tomb in Luke 24:10 — those whose witness and action set the resurrection story in motion before anyone else arrived.

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