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WOMEN IN THE BIBLE
TWO MIDWIVES,
MOSES’ MOTHER,
& PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER

EXODUS 1 & 2

		TWO MIDWIVES FEAR GOD MORE THAN PHARAOH

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, “When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.” The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”

So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

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.”

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JAMES TISSOT
"Pharaoh and the Midwives"

		BABY MOSES, SET ADRIFT

Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, 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. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

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SIMEON SOLOMON
"Jochebed, Miriam and Baby Moses"

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PEDRO AMÉRICO
"Moses and Jochebed"

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CHARLES HEATH
"The Mother of Moses Sadly Abandons Her Child by the River"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Moses Laid Amid the Flags"

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PAUL DELAROCHE
"Moses in the Bulrushes"

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ALEXEY VASSILIEVICH TYRANOV
"Moses' Mother"

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ELIZABETH JANE GARDNER
"Moses in the Bulrushes"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"The Child Moses on the Nile"

		BABY MOSES, RESCUED!

Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it. 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.

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JAMES TISSOT
"Pharaoh's Daughter Has Moses Brought to Her"

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FREDERICK GOODALL
"The Finding of Moses"

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ELISABETTA SIRANI
"Finding of Moses"

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THOMAS BLANCHET
"Moyse Saved from the Flood"

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JEAN-JACQUES LAGRENÉE
"Moses Saved from the Waters"

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PETER PAUL RUBENS
"Moses Adopted by Pharao's Daughter"

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HENRYK SIEMIRADZKI
"The Retrieval of Moses from the Nile"

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PAUL PEEL
"The Discovery of Moses"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"The Finding of Moses"

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KONSTANTIN FLAVITSKY
"Pharaoh's Daughter Finding Baby Moses"

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LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA
"The Finding of Moses"

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HE QI
"Finding Baby Moses"

		THE CONSPIRACY IS JOINED

Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”

“Yes, go,” she answered. And the girl went and got the baby’s mother.

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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.

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JAMES TISSOT
"Pharaoh's Daughter Receives the Mother of Moses"

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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WILLIAM HOGARTH
"Moses Brought Before Pharaoh's Daughter"

New International Version ©1984, Abrgd, EMPHASES added
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[Red Badger]

Six.................

His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

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Young Miriam......................

[Red Badger]

I wonder, Was Aaron around?..................

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He was the elder brother, so yes.

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How did he survive?.................

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan, and good Friday to each of you.

What a show! The princess could not imagine who Moses would become, as God prepared him.

As likewise each of us were drawn from a river of sin, to strive to understand God’s grace.

Thank You Dan.

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The Bible is silent in that regard.....................

[Red Badger]

Does seem to be incongruous.......................

[No name given]

Beautiful, if also NSFW.

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As likewise each of us were drawn from a river of sin, to strive to understand God’s grace.

Oooooooh, waxing poetic! Yea, O Brother Leon the Bard, thou hast striven mightily! Thou drivest home the inferential point with accuracy unerring.

The garland thus belongs to you. Hail Leon!

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The Bible is NSFW.

[Big Red Badger]

Moses had alot ahead of him.
Five Books to write.
A million or so Jews to bust out.
Forty years in the Wilderness.
A Face to Face with the Holy One of Israel
.
Moses got some cred

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Nice summary and retrospective. A good listing, for example, of his qualifications for being pert of the gang on the Mount of Transfiguration.

[Big Red Badger]

Still the ‘Law Giver’ missed the mark
showing we couldn’t attain Perfection
Without Messiah.
.
Thank You Jesus!

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You are on fire today!

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What did you two have for breakfast this morning?! The Spirit is speaking through you both. It’s a joy to behold!

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My inner John the Baptist...
Which raises the Question;
Why did Jesus call John
‘The Greatest Born of Woman?’

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Matthew 11:11:

Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

It's the same argument Jesus made to Nicodemus: You must be born again, from above, by the Spirit.