Josephus
Antiquities of the Jews
Book 2
She told Pharaoh that she had taken thought
for the succession, if, indeed, by the will of
God she should not happen to have a child of
her own, by raising a child both divine in appearance
and distinguished in intelligence, and having
received him wondrously, thanks to the river, "I
thought that I would make him my child and the
successor to your kingdom."
Saying these things, she placed the newborn
child in the hands of her father, and he, having
taken it and having clasped him to his breast in
a manifestation of affection placed his crown upon
the newborn in order to please his daughter. But
Moyses (Moses) taking it away, threw it down upon
the ground, and in childishness, stepped up on it
with his feet. This seemed to indicate an omen for
the kingdom.
Book 2: #232 - #234
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