• Faith of Parents Rewarded
    The Watchtower—1997 | May 1

    • When she saw the weeping child inside, her compassion was stirred. She perceived that this was a Hebrew baby. Yet, how could she have such a beautiful child murdered? Apart from human kindness, Pharaoh’s daughter may have been influenced by the popular Egyptian belief that admittance to heaven depended on a record of kind acts during one’s lifetime.b—Exodus 2:5, 6.

  • Faith of Parents Rewarded
    The Watchtower—1997 | May 1

    • b The Egyptians believed that at death a person’s spirit would recite in the presence of Osiris such affirmations as “I have not afflicted any man,” “I have not withheld milk from the mouths of sucklings,” and “I have given bread to the hungry and drink to him that was athirst.”