Characters: Moses, Mother of Moses, Miriam, Aaron.
[The mother is singing to the baby in her lap. Aaron is playing on the floor. Miriam runs in.]
Miriam: O mother! The king has commanded that all the boy babies be thrown in the river! How can we save our baby?
Mother: Where shall we take him? I have hidden him for these three months, but he is so big now and his cries are so loud that they will be sure to find him wherever we go.
Miriam: Come quickly, mother; we will go to the river and hide him nearby. Pharaoh cannot find him there, for he will think that he has been thrown in the water.
Mother: O my poor baby!
[The three run out.]
SCENE II
Place: The river bank.
Characters: Moses, Mother of Moses, Miriam.