Synopsis:
Moses is born to a man from the house of Levi. He is hidden
for 3 months, then his mother sets him adrift in an arc on the river. He is
found by Pharoah’s daughter. She hires Moses’s mom to nurse hi. He grows up
sees the Hebrews toiling, and sees an Egyptian “smiting” a Hebrew. So he kills
the Egyptian and hides the body. The next day and couple of Hebrews ask him why
he killed the man and does he plan to kill them as well. Pharaoh finds out and
wants to kill Moses but Moses runs away to the land of Midian but they think he
is an Egyptian. Long story short, he is allowed to stay and marry one of
priests daughters and she had a son. In the meantime Pharaoh dies and is
replaced by a new King. All seems well except that God finally realizes the
people of Israel are suffering in Egypt and decides he is going to do something
about it.
In other words:
Moses is born, grows up, kills an Egyptian, flees, gets
married, and has a son.
Favorite bit:
Exodus 2: 14 – where the two Hebrew’s challenge Moses over
the murder – who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
Least favorite bit:
(Exodus 2: 24,25) God is reintroduced, rather unnecessarily
it seems.
Moral Lesson Learned:
Murder is murder and it is never justified. (Exodus 2:
13,14)
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