| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Ex 2:4 | Basic English | And his sister took her place at a distance to see what would become of him. |
| King James | And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| his sister--Miriam would probably be a girl of ten or twelve years of age at the time. |