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单词 Baby Moses law
释义

Baby Moses law

English

Etymology

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

Baby Moses law (plural Baby Moses laws)

  1. (US) A statute that decriminalizes the leaving of (unharmed) infants with certain designated private persons so that they become wards of the state.

References

  1. 1769, Exodus, Benjamin Blayney (editor), King James Bible, Oxford standard text.
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