Baby Moses law
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A reference to the Biblical story, related in Exodus chapter 2, in which the baby Moses is abandoned by the river Nile and found by the pharaoh's daughter.[1]
Noun[edit]
Baby Moses law (plural Baby Moses laws)
- (US) A statute that decriminalizes the leaving of (unharmed) infants with certain designated private persons so that they become wards of the state.
References[edit]
- ^ 1769, Exodus, Benjamin Blayney (editor), King James Bible, Oxford standard text.