Exodus 2:4
Good News Translation
The baby's sister stood some distance away to see what would happen to him.

New Revised Standard Version
His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.

Contemporary English Version
The baby's older sister stood off at a distance to see what would happen to him.

New American Bible
His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.

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His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.

Exodus 15:20 So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances.

Numbers 12:1-15 And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian, . . .

Numbers 20:1 And the children of Israel, and all the multitude came into the desert of Sin, in the first month: and the people abode in Cades. And Mary died there, and was buried in the same place.

Numbers 26:59 Who had to wife Jochabed the daughter of Levi, who was born to him in Egypt. She bore to her husband Amram sons, Aaron and Moses, and Mary their sister.

Micah 6:4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and delivered thee out of the house of slaves: and I sent before thy face Moses, and Aaron, and Mary.

Context
The Birth of Moses
3And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink, 4His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.
Cross References
Exodus 15:20
So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances.

Numbers 26:59
Who had to wife Jochabed the daughter of Levi, who was born to him in Egypt. She bore to her husband Amram sons, Aaron and Moses, and Mary their sister.

Exodus 2:3
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