15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, 16 “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.” 17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. 22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”
EXODUS 2
1 Now…a Levite woman…became pregnant and gave birth to a son…she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe. She saw the basket among the reeds. 6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
8 “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 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.”
by JAMES TISSOT
“Pharaoh and the Midwives”
by JAMES TISSOT
"Moses Laid Amid the Flags"
by GUSTAV DORÉ
"The Child Moses on the Nile"
by GUSTAV DORÉ
“The Finding of Moses”
by JAMES TISSOT
“Pharaoh’s Daughter Has Moses Brought to Her”
by JAMES TISSOT
“Pharaoah’s Daughter Receives the Mother of Moses”
by HE QI
“Baby Moses” – silk tapestry
by NICOLAS POUSSIN
“Baby Moses Trampling on the Pharaoh's Crown”
11 One day…Moses…went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew...seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian...
by JAMES TISSOT
"Moses Slays an Egyptian"
by JULIUS SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD
“Moses Kills an Egyptian”
by SANDRO BOTTICELLI
“Moses Kills the Egyptian”
13 The next day he…saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
14 The man said, “Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”
15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16 Now a priest of Midian…gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 22 Zipporah gave birth to a son.
23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.
EXODUS 3
1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, and he led the flock to…the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
And Moses said, “Here I am.”
5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 And God said, “I will be with you.”
13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’”
14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
18 “…you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘Let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God.’ 19 …the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. 20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.”
“Moses And Burning Bush”
Woodcut from the Great Cologne Bible, 1478-1480
“Moses and the Burning Bush” Byzantine Mosaic, St Catherine's Monastery, Mt. Sinai, Egypt
“Moses Tending Sheep and at the Burning Bush”
Mosaic at Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
“THUS SHALT THOU SAY TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL:
HE WHO IS HATH SENT ME TO YOU”
by DEANA HARVEY
“Moses and the Burning Bush”
by TOMMY PEREZ
“Moses at Burning Bush”
by JUSTIN CHRISTENBERY
“Burn”
by YORAM RAANAN
“Moses Stands at the Burning Bush”
by BRENT KASTLER
“Moses and the Burning Bush”
by ANNE CAMERON CUTRI
“Burning Bush”
by NICOLAS POUSSIN
“Moses and the Burning Bush”
by DOMENICHINO
“Landscape with Moses and the Burning Bush”
by JEAN BAPTISTE VAN LOO
“Moses and the Burning Bush”
by SEBASTIEN BOURDON
“Burning Bush”
by RAPHAEL
“Moses and the Burning Bush”
by EUGENE PLUCHART
“God Appears to Moses in Burning Bush”
by MARC CHAGALL
“Moses with the Burning Bush”
by HOE YEN TAM
“Moses & Burning Bush”
by ERNST FUCHS
“Moses and the Burning Bush”
by SUZANNE ACKERMAN
“Burning Bush”
“Moses and the Burning Bush”
EXODUS 4
1 Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”
2 Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”
“A staff,” he replied.
3 The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.”
Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. 4 Then the Lord said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. 5 “This,” said the Lord, “is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”
Matthew 18:3 "And he said: 'Truly I tell you, unless you change and
become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.'"
13 But Moses said, “Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.”
14 Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. 15 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. 16 He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. 17 But take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it.”
27 The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him. 28 Then Moses told Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say, and also about all the signs he had commanded him to perform.
29 Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites, 30 and Aaron told them everything the Lord had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before the people, 31 and they believed. And when they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.
by JAMES TISSOT
"Moses"
(241 wood engravings for
La Grande Bible de Tours)
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