Êxodo 1

Êxodo 1:21-22

And that you may learn this—Pharaoh commanded the infants to be cast into the river. Unless the infants had been cast forth, Moses would not have been saved, he would not have been brought up in the palace. When he was safe, he was not in honor; when he was exposed, then he was in honor. But God did this to show his riches of resource and contrivance. — HOMILIES ON ACTS 54, AT ACTS 20:17