b) The reasons for their action, v.23bThough the couple apparently did not name their son, they saw in his countenance and deduced the favor of God in his life (the word used here is used of God’s delight in the creation [“He saw that it was good,” Gen. 1:10, 12]). They obeyed the order to put the male into the river but did so in a different way. There, Hatshepsut, Amenhopet II’s daughter, found him, adopted him, and named him after her grandfather, Thutmose III. Moses means “drawn out;” Thutmose means “born of a god,” a claim to deity.Further, their trust in God with the sense of His directive mercies was greater than their fears of a monarch.