![]() ![]() And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him. (3-6) Pharaoh’s daughter finds Moses.īut when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. ![]() Hebrews 11:23 describes the faith of Moses’ parents: By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child and they were not afraid of the king’s command. ![]() She hid him three months: The parents of Moses did not do this only because of the natural parental instinct they did it also out of faith in God. Fanciful Jewish legends say that Moses’ birth was painless to his mother, that at his birth his face was so beautiful that the room was filled with light equal to the sun and moon combined, that he walked and spoke when he was a day old, and that he refused to nurse, eating solid food from birth.Ĭ. A man of the house of Levi went and took as wife a daughter of Levi: Exodus 6:20 tells us the names of Moses’ parents: Amram and Jochebed. He had at least an older brother (Aaron) and an older sister (Miriam).ī. Moses was not the firstborn in his family. Nevertheless, Moses had something special in his favor: he was the child of believing parents. He was born in a powerful nation, but was of a foreign, oppressed race during a time when all babies such as himself were under a royal death sentence. So the woman conceived and bore a son: The baby Moses opened his eyes to an unfriendly world. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months.Ī. (1-2) Moses is born – a beautiful child, of the tribe of Levi.Īnd a man of the house of Levi went and took as wife a daughter of Levi. ![]()
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