Exodus 2:1-3 - She saw that he was a fine child

2:1

Moses was the son of a Levite man and woman. It is significant that Moses is not in the ancestry of Jesus, who, humanly speaking, came from the tribe of Judah. The work of Moses is clearly important, but the new covenant marked an important break (NOT a doing away with!) from the Law, as Hebrews explains. This does not mean the Law is not important, as Matt 5:17-20 makes abundantly clear. We should also note that Moses appeared, along with Elijah, with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration.

2:2,3

The edict to throw male babies into the Nile was in force at this point, and Moses’ mother saw that he was a fine child, so she hid him for three months. This does rather raise the question of whether she would have done the same if he had been an ugly looking baby! It may simply mean that she recognised that there was something special about him, that God had a special purpose for him. Eventually it became impossible to hide the baby, so she made a basket, coated in bitumen and pitch to make it waterproof, and the basket was put among the reeds. So technically she was obeying the Egyptian law, but was also maximising the chances of Moses surviving somehow.