Moses, saved from the water
Exodus 2:1-10
Pharaoh had ordered the Hebrew baby boys to be thrown into the river. A mother hid her son in a basket among the reeds of the river, and Pharaoh’s daughter saved him and named him Moses. Exodus 2:1-10
The story, in plain words
In Egypt, Pharaoh, the king, ordered that the baby boys of the Hebrews, the Israelites, be thrown into the river. Exodus 1:22
In those days, a man from the family of Levi married a woman from the same family. Exodus 2:1
She had a son. She saw that he was a beautiful child, and she hid him for three months. Exodus 2:2
When she could hide him no longer, she put him in a basket made of reeds, among the reeds at the edge of the river. Exodus 2:3 The baby’s sister…
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Exodus 2:1-10
1After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of his own kindred. 2And she conceived, and bore a son; and seeing him a goodly child hid him three months. 3And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river’s brink, 4His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done. 5And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river’s brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges, she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought, 6She opened it and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews. 7And the child’s sister said to her Shall I go and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe? 8She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother. 9And Pharao’s daughter said to her. Take this child and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took, and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao’s daughter. 10And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
To talk about together
- Moses’ mother and his sister did everything they could to take care of him. Who has taken care of you like that?
- Pharaoh’s daughter was not a Hebrew, and even so she had compassion on the child. What does that tell you about helping people who are not “our own”?
- For the child: how do you take care of your brothers and sisters or of younger children?