Hearing his cry, she is drawn into the presence of this infant and desires to care for him, becoming his substitute mother until Moses is a grown man. Now what happens next might just seem like simple luck…the basket is placed close to where Pharaoh’s daughter comes to the water to bathe, and lo and behold she finds the infant Moses. But she is strategic in where she places the basket. So we know now how the rest of the story goes, she prepares this water-proof basket, places Moses in the basket and gently puts him into the water, hidden behind the reeds. But it was a solution that required a heart wrenching “letting go”: a letting go of a part of herself and letting go of a life she loved beyond loving. The internal struggle to find a solution and a way out of the pending doom led her to plot a way to protect her infant son forever. She must be desperate, desperate to find any way to keep Moses alive. Moses’ mother must have known from the moment she knew she was to have a child that this day would come, a day she would have to give up her baby. We mothers, we’re attached to our babies even before they are born. I can’t imagine what this must have been like for her or the pressure she was feeling. I imagine her concern for his safety is growing more intense each day. They start moving around more, making more noise, so surely his presence was starting to get noticed. ![]() Whatever it takes to keep his birth a secret, this is what Moses’ mother would have to do! But now Moses is a little older, 3 months old and we know what 3 month old infants are like. This makes sense, he is quiet, newborns sleep a lot, her close friends would keep the secret and she is able to keep him out of sight while closed off in their small home. He is a 'type' or 'shadow' of Christ, the Mediator of the New Covenant*.Moses is born and his mother is able to hide him at first. That is why he is called the ‘Mediator of the Old Covenant’.* In that position he mediates between God and the people. Moses is called to be the leader who will lead the people out of Egypt. In Genesis 15 God promises Abram to liberate his descendants from the land of slavery. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.” So he (Joseph) got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. When Jesus is born there is a cruel ruler who commands that Hebrew children be killed. In the painting her face is visible between the reeds. His sister Miriam stands at a distance to see what will happen to him. ![]() Then she places Moses in the basket and places it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. In order to save Moses she does the following: she acquires a papyrus basket for him and coats it with tar and pitch. His mother, Jochebed, hides Moses for three months. The pharaoh then commands all Egyptians to throw the Hebrew young boys into the Nile. However, the midwives ignore this command. ![]() He also commands midwives to kill all the new-born sons of the Israelites. He sees the increase of the people of Israel as a threat and he therefore oppresses the Israelites with forced labour. As time goes by a new pharaoh, who never knew Joseph comes to power. After the death of Joseph and his brothers, their descendants become numerous in Egypt.
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