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Exodus 2:1-15
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Exodus 2:1-15
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Exodus 2:1–15
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Whoever invented the word “chicken-hearted” didn’t know his chickens. I have never seen a greater demonstration of courage, fearlessness, and loyalty than I have seen displayed by a chicken in the time of danger. A hen will sit immovable through the most violent storm w … More
Moses is born (vv. 1-2). His parents kept him inside for three months but when they could not longer keep him hidden they placed him in a basket and placed him in the tall grass along the edge of the Nile river (v. 3). The babies older sister stood at a distance and watched to see what would happen to her baby brother (v. 4). Soon one of the king’s daughters came to take a bath in the river (v. 5). She spotted the basket in the tall grass and sent one of the young women to pull it out of the water. When the king’s daughter looked in the basket she saw the baby and felt sorry for him because he was crying (v. 6). She said, “This must be one of the Hebrew babies.”
When the babies older sister saw what was happening she asked if she could get a Hebrew woman to take care of the baby for her (v. 7). The king’s daughter said yes so she brought the baby’s mother (v. 8). Immediately the King’s daughter told the mother she would pay her if she would take care of the child (v. 9). The babies mother agreed to take him to her home and take care of him (v. 10). When he was old enough she took him to the king’s daughter who adopted him.
After Moses had grown up he went out to where his people were working and saw an Egyptian beating one of them (v. 11). He made sure no one was watching and then killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand (v. 12). The next day Moses saw two Hebrews fighting and he questioned why they were fighting (v. 13). One man asked if he was planning to kill him like he did the Egyptian (v. 14). Moses was afraid realizing this is known and he fled to Midian where he becomes a shepherd (v. 15).
Application
Just as God had a future planned for Moses and protected him in the bull rushes he has a future planned for me and protects me.
Exodus 2:1-15 (English Standard Version)
Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank. And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children." Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?" And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him. When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, "Because," she said, "I drew him out of the water." One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, "Why do you strike your companion?" He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known." When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.
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