The story of moses birth – मूसा के जन्म की कहानी
Many years had passed since the death of Joseph. New kings were crowned in Egypt, who had no appreciation for how Joseph had saved their country during a great famine. The birth of Moses would mark the beginning of God’s plan to free his people from 400 years of Egyptian slavery.
The Hebrew people became so numerous in Egypt that Pharaoh began to fear them. He believed if an enemy attacked, the Hebrews might ally themselves with that enemy and conquer Egypt. To prevent that, Pharaoh ordered that all newborn Hebrew boys must be killed by the midwives to keep them from growing up and becoming soldiers.
Out of loyalty to God, the midwives refused to obey. They told Pharaoh that the Jewish mothers, unlike Egyptian women, gave birth quickly before the midwife arrived.
A handsome male child was born to Amram, of the tribe of Levi, and his wife, Jochebed. For three months, Jochebed hid the baby to keep him safe. When she could do that no longer, she got a basket made of bulrushes and reeds, waterproofed the bottom with bitumen and pitch, put the baby in it, and set the basket on the Nile River.
Pharaoh’s daughter happened to be bathing in the river at the time. When she saw the basket, she had one of her handmaidens bring it to her. She opened it and found the baby crying. Knowing he was one of the Hebrew children, she took pity on him and planned to adopt him as her son.
The baby’s sister, Miriam, was watching nearby and asked Pharaoh’s daughter if she should get a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for her. Ironically, the woman Miriam brought back was Jochebed, the child’s mother, who nursed her own baby until he could be weaned and raised in the house of Pharaoh’s daughter.
Pharaoh’s daughter named the child Moses, which in Hebrew means “drawn out of the water” and in Egyptian was close to the word for “son.”
The story of moses birth – मूसा के जन्म की कहानी
