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Child Moses rescued from the water
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[Exodus 2:10]
¡°When the child grew older, she
took him to Pharaoh¡¯s daughter and he became her son.
She named him Moses, saying, ¡°I
drew him out of the water.¡±¡±
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Jacob
left Canaan with all his family and headed for Egypt.
Joseph,
who became the prime minister of Egypt, welcomed his father and his family.
They
settled in the land of Goshen prepared by Joseph.
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The Egyptians called Jacob's
company the Hebrew people.
Hundreds of years have passed
since they settled there.
The descendants of Jacob, who
were 70 when they first came to Egypt, or the Hebrew nation,
became a great nation in the
land of Egypt.
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Pharaoh,
king of Egypt, was afraid of the Hebrews who had greatly increased in number.
He
thought that if war broke out, they would join forces with Egypt's enemies.
So
he tried to prevent the number of the Hebrew people from increasing any
further,
but
to no avail. The number of the Hebrew peoples did not decrease.
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King
Pharaoh gave a terrible command to all the people of Egypt so that the number
of the
Hebrew
peoples would not increase any further.
[Exodus 1:22] Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people:
"Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but
let every girl live."
From
then on, the heinous events of a Hebrew male child born in Egypt were
immediately
thrown
into the Nile River.
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At
that time, a boy was born to a Hebrew house.
They
belonged to the tribe of Levi.
The
boy's father's name was ¡®Amram¡¯ and his mother's name was ¡®Jochebed¡¯.
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The
child born had a very handsome face.
The
child's mother could not give up the child to be thrown into the Nile River.
So
she secretly hid the child and raised him for three months, out of sight.
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However,
after three months, she was no longer able to keep the infant in hiding.
But
she couldn't just dump the child into the Nile River.
Jochebed
made a box of reeds for her child.
The
box kept water out and made it floatable.
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She
put the child in a reed box and placed the reed box among the large reeds
on
the banks of the Nile.
The
child's sister was watching the box through the reeds to see what would
happen to child.
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At that time there were people who came out
to the river to bathe nearby.
That man was the daughter of Pharaoh, king
of Egypt, that is, an Egyptian princess.
The servants who came with the princess
were walking along the river with the princess.
Then the princess's eyes saw a box among
the reeds.
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The
princess told her servants to bring the box.
The
princess opened the box and saw the child inside.
The
princess quickly realized that the child was a Hebrew child.
When
she saw a crying child in her box, she felt sorry for her.
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The older sister of the child who was
watching this scene ran to the princess and said,
She asked, ¡°Shall I go and get a Hebrew
woman to nurse this child?¡±
The princess, who looked pitiful for the
child in the box, said, ¡°Yeah, do it.¡±
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The
child's older sister ran home in one step.
She
then took her mother in front of princess.
The
princess gave her child to Jochebed and said, She said,
¡°Take
this baby and breastfeed for me, and I will pay you for it.¡±
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This
child is now legally raised under the orders of the princess.
The
child's mother was allowed to breastfeed and raise her child to her heart's
content.
Since
she is a child raised by the princess at the request of the princess, the
fear of dumping her into the Nile is gone. The child grew up in his mother's
home.
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After
the child grew up, Jochebed took the child to the princess.
The
princess took the child as her son. She then named the child Moses because
she was
¡°the
one who rescued him from the water.¡±
This
very child named Moses will become a great leader who will later lead the
Hebrew
people to Canaan.
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Through today's words, we can see that God was
always with Moses.
From the moment Moses was born, he strengthened
the hearts of his parents and protected him from being thrown into the Nile
River.
After three months, he was forced to be
abandoned among the reeds of the Nile River,
but God gave him the grace to let the princess
find the child.
In addition, he gave the princess a pity on the
heart of the princess who saw Moses,
so that a miraculous thing happened when he was
brought up with the milk of his mother, Jochebed.
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We believe in Jesus and we become children
of
God.
Today, God protects us just as he protects
Moses.
I hope that you will remember God who was with
Moses whenever you face difficulties
in your future life. He must believe that God
is always watching over us.
I hope that you will not be discouraged or
disappointed,
but be people of faith who expect God to help
you.
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