Where is that in the Torah? The sister of Moses, Miriam, said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and find one of the Hebrew women to nurse him?" The first letters of her words spell "He is circumcised."
מִן הָעִבְרִיֹּת; וְתֵינִק לָךְ - "from the Hebrew women, to nurse him for you."
First letters:
מהול - circumcised
When Moses's mother first looked at him, "she saw that he was good." That is because the foreskin is called "bad," and Moses was "good," that is, circumcised.
Art: Moses in the Bullrushes by Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau
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