'daughter of Pharaoh') in the story of the finding of Moses in the biblical Book of Exodus is an important, albeit minor, figure in Abrahamic religions.

Though some variations of her story exist, the general consensus among Jews, Christians, and Muslims is that she is the adoptive mother of the prophet Moses.

As she ensured the well-being of Moses throughout his early life, she played an essential role in lifting the Hebrew slaves out of bondage in Egypt, their journey to the Promised Land, and the establishment of the Ten Commandments.

'the Jewess'), which some English translations of the Bible treat as a given name, Jehudijah (Hebrew: יהודיה, romanized: yehudiyyah, lit.

[9][10][11] However, some have criticized the idea that the "daughter of Pharaoh" in 1 Chronicles named Bithiah is the same as the one who adopted Moses since there is no textual indication that this is the case and the chronology may not be consistent with that conclusion.

The Talmud and the Midrash Vayosha provide some additional backstory to the event, saying that she had visited the Nile that morning not to bathe for the purpose of hygiene but for ritual purification, treating the river as if it were a mikveh, as she had grown tired of people's idolatrous ways, and that she first sought to nurse Moses herself but he would not take her milk and so, she called for a Hebrew wet nurse, who so happened to be Moses' biological mother, Jochebed.

[1][2][3][4] Rabbinic literature tells a significantly different take on the events that day, portraying Pharaoh's daughter as having suffered from a skin disease[5] (possibly leprosy[12]), the pain of which only the cold waters of the Nile could relieve, and that these lesions healed when she found Moses.

[18] In George Gershwin's 1935 opera Porgy and Bess, the song It Ain't Necessarily So mentions Pharaoh's daughter finding baby Moses.

[20] In her poem 'Epitaph', the American poet Eleanor Wilner depicts Pharaoh's daughter as having raised Moses, whom she honed 'like a sword', to be a rebel within the palace household.

See Chapters into Verse, edited by Robert Atwan and Laurance Wieder (2000), New York: Oxford University Press, pp.

[21] Drama-films depicting her include The Ten Commandments (1956),[22] the animated musical The Prince of Egypt (1998)[23] and Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014).