Moses's Birth and Adoption; Moses in Midian ;Exodus Chapter 2:1-25

 Birth and Adoption

 Moses's was not an orphan. Moses had a mother who loved him. Moses experienced separation as a 3month old infant through temporary separation when Pharaoh's daughter found him. A few years later, Moses returned to Pharaoh's daughter and became his (adoptive)mother. Moses was to be Gods man to deliver his people from oppression and slavery in Egypt. However, he was at a time when his own life would be in serious danger. The King had issued a decree that all the Hebrew newborn boys were to be killed by throwing them into the River Nile. God's presence as Savior was evident in Moses' early life. Moses' parents saved him from death by hiding him in a basket on the Nile. The basket is symbolic of the ark, which carried Noah and his family to safety when God destroyed wickedness from the face of the earth.

Moses in Midian

Moses spent 40 years in voluntary exile in Midian after killing an Egyptian. There, he married Zipporah, the daughter of Midianite priest Jethro (also known as Reuel) Jethro advised Moses on establishing a system of delegated legal decision- making. For his noble deed, Moses was adopted into Jethro's family, and Jethro gave Moses one of his daughters in marriage. Josephus then writes that Moses took to herding Jethro's flock in Midian, and did so in close proximity to Mount Sinai, where he encounters God at the burning Bush.



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