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Bithiah, in Hebrew '''Bitya''' (בִּתְיָה, literally ''daughter of God''), is the name given to a character in the account of the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt in Rabbinic Midrash , as she is not named in the text. She was the foster mother of Moses , having drawn him from the Nile. IN THE BIBLE AND MIDRASH In the Biblical account, she is described as the daughter of Pharaoh, and is not named. The , and was the only female firstborn of Egypt to survive. IN MOVIES She is often portrayed as being the sister or wife of Pharaoh in adaptations of the story, in order to have Moses appear as Pharaoh's son. In the film The Ten Commandments , she is portrayed as the sister of the Egyptian pharaoh, Seti I , who raised Moses as her own son as her husband had died years previously, before they could have children. In the film The Prince Of Egypt , she is shown as the wife of Seti I, and the birth mother of Raamses. SOURCES
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