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In 1st Chronicles 4:18 it mentions a man by the name of Mered taken Pharoah's daughter Bithiah to wife. While researching who exactly these individuals were, the consensus states that this Bithiah was the very same woman who found Moshe during the Parashat Shemoth (Leviticus Rabbah 3) (https://www.sefaria.org/Megillah.13a?lang=bi)

What sparks this question was Mered taking her (Bithiah) on as a wife. Was this before the Exodus? After? During? Being how Moshe came back on the scene at 80yrs of age, how much older was Bithiah than Moshe?

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    this site has a comment which references the Zohar that Batya and Tzipporah were twins, so figure out the age of one, and you get the other chabad.org/multimedia/video_cdo/aid/1378214/jewish/… – rosends Dec 2 '20 at 18:50
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    @rosends How could that be? Tzipporah was the daughter of Yisro and Batya was the daughter of Par'o – sabbahillel Dec 3 '20 at 1:06
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    @sabbahillel I report. You decide. – rosends Dec 3 '20 at 11:16
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    FYI @rosends - Look in the Midrash Talpios on Basya where it brings the Zohar. It says that they were twins and Paroh and Yisro took them from the marketplace because of their beauty and treated then like daughters. – Dov Jan 7 at 18:15
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    @rosends It seems from this discussion in Birkas Avraham that the original statement about Basya and Tzipporah was that they were gilgulim of Hevel's twin sisters, and that this was mistakenly taken by later authors to mean that they were actually biological sisters. In fact, one of the early sources about this, Chesed L'Avraham, says clearly (left column, just past the middle) that Hevel's twins are the "secret" of Tzipporah and Basya. – Meir Jan 7 at 18:16

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