The Man Moses #1

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The Man Moses #1

Clayt Sheridan, II

The Beginning: Amram married his aunt Jochebed and she had two sons Aaron and Moses. Amram lived to be 137 ears old. Jochebed was the daughter of a Levite. When Moses was born  she saw there was something special about him and hid him. The Pharaoh became so fearful of the growing Jewish population that he issued a edict ordering all Hebrew  boy babied under two had to be slaughtered.  Because of this law she hid baby Moses for three months. When she couldn't hide him any longer she got a little basket-boat made of papyrus, waterproofed it with tar and pitch, and placed the child in it. Then she set it afloat in the reeds at the edge of the Nile. 

The baby's older sister found a safe hiding place and watched to see what would happen to her baby brother. Divine providence brought Pharaoh's daughter came to the Nile to bathe. She saw the basket-boat floating in the reeds and sent her maid to get it. She opened it and saw the child—a baby crying! Her heart went out to him. She said, "This must be one of the Hebrew babies."

Then, Miriam,  his sister appeared and offered  "Do you want me to go and get a nursing mother from the Hebrews so she can nurse the baby for you?" Pharaoh's daughter said, "Yes. Go." Miriam went and called the child's mother. Pharaoh's daughter told her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me. I'll pay you." The woman took the child and nursed him. After the child was weaned, she presented him to Pharaoh's daughter who adopted him as her son. She named him Moses (Pulled-Out), saying, "I pulled him out of the water."

Time Goes By: Moses grew up. He was educated in the best schools in Egypt. He was equally impressive as a thinker and an athlete. "When he was forty years old, he wondered how everything was going with his Hebrew kin and went out to look things over. He saw an Egyptian abusing one of he them and stepped in, avenging his underdog brother by knocking the Egyptian flat. He thought his brothers would be glad that he was on their side, and even see him as an instrument of God to deliver them. But they didn't see it that way. The next day two of them were fighting and he tried to break it up, told them to shake hands and get along with each other: 'Friends, you are brothers, why are you beating up on each other?' "The one who had started the fight said, 'Who put you in charge of us? Are you going to kill me like you killed that Egyptian yesterday?' When Moses heard that, realizing that the word was out, he ran for his life and lived in exile over in Midian. During the years of exile, two sons were born to him. 
(Gleaned from Acts 7:22-28)

The next edition explores Moses’ Exile in Midian.