Bithiah was a daughter of Pharaoh who found the infant Moses in a basket among the reeds by the Nile and adopted him as her own son. According to Jewish tradition and 1 Chronicles, she was identified as Bithiah, daughter of Pharaoh, who later married Mered from the tribe of Judah. She played a crucial role in God's plan of salvation by saving Moses from death and raising him in the Egyptian court.
Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe and discovered a basket with a crying baby boy among the reeds. She felt compassion for the child and decided to take him in.
5Then Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe in the Nile while her attendants walked along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to fetch it.
10When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, "Because I drew him out of the water." [Footnote: The name Moses sounds like the Hebrew word meaning "to draw out."]
In 1 Chronicles, Bithiah is mentioned as the daughter of Pharaoh and wife of Mered from the tribe of Judah, indicating that she left Egypt and became part of God's people.
18Mered's Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These were the sons of Bithiah, Pharaoh's daughter, whom Mered had married.
The book of Hebrews tells us that by faith Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter when he grew up, choosing instead to suffer with God's people rather than enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.