Moses' Hero

Genesis goes on more about Joseph, his brothers, his dad, and Pharaoh. They had quite the conundrum of events. I'm not really going to recap that story though because pretty much everyone knows it and it's one of those stories that's told a gazillion times over. There's even a musical about it. I'm more interested in the unseen or unnoticed events and people of the past. The musical is REALLY good though and if you don't know the story, I'd encourage you to check out the musical - it's called "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat".

That hop, skip and jumps us over to Exodus. Here we are at a point when Israel is rocking it and doing great. Joseph laid a good foundation before he died so his following generations could prosper and live well. He was a smart guy. Oh yeah, and he died.

There was this king in Egypt, Pharaoh. He was annoyed and jealous that the Israel peeps were doing well. He kept trying to stop them and burden them with hard tasks and cities to build. The Israel people did every task with energy and a positive attitude. They worked together through it all and accomplished everything the jealous king set before them to do.

This obviously didn't help the King's jealousy. It made him even more angry. He had a new idea and told all the midwives of the Hebrew women to kill any sons born but let the daughters live. This king was terrified the prosperous Israel people would keep multiplying more and join with opponents during wars which would eventually overtake Egypt. Here's an idea, how about be friends instead then? Just a thought....

Here's the catch with this king's great plan, these midwives knew a thing or two about life and what is good to do and not so good to do. They didn't think it was too smart to kill babies. It didn't take much for them to realize murdering an innocent newborn child would probably lead to a greater price to pay when faced with eternity. The midwives had very good lives because of their choices. They got cool houses and everything. Pharaoh didn't like it too much and told his people and servants that every son born had to be tossed into the river, never mind the daughters though, leave them be. Well then, this made life interesting for those around the cities I'm sure....

So there's this daughter of Levi who was married to a guy and had a son. She had a daughter first though, her name was Miriam. Anyways, back to the son she had, she managed to hide the kid for 3 months. I'm sure that was no easy task. Babies cry - a lot. And they smell funny. So when his mom decided she couldn't hide him anymore, she hid him by the river bank, and I'm sure hoping he wouldn't cry the entire time. His sister, Miriam, stayed around because she was worried about her little brother. She was a good sister. She couldn't just walk away leaving her baby brother behind floating in a basket hidden in a river bank.

One of Pharaoh's daughters happened to come along to take a bath in the river. That sounds nice, I want to take a bath in a river one day. How refreshing and close to nature that would be. I guess this gal's bath was delayed though because she found a baby. As soon as she found him, he cried. Of course he did! I'm sure he was holding that one in for quite some time. Regardless, the cry made the girl have some compassion. I guess she was a little nicer than her daddy, the king, was. The boy's sister, Miriam, asked Pharaoh's daughter if she should run to get a Hebrew lady for the baby to nurse from. Pharaoh's daughter agreed. Man, Miriam was brilliant! The girl went and got their mother. Pharaoh's daughter even paid the kid's mom to nurse him. How smart is that! She is now getting paid to feed her own kid. Thank you Miriam! She's the true hero in this story. Once the kid grew old enough, she gave him to Pharaoh's daughter to have as her son knowing he'd be kept safe there. Pharoah's daughter named the kiddo Moses.

When Moses got older, he got into a fight. He was standing up for a Hebrew kid who was being bullied by an Egyptian kid. I guess bullying was a thing back then too. I mean he actually killed the Egyptian, so maybe he went a little too far. Word got out and he got a little scared because Pharaoh caught wind of it. Pharaoh wanted all the male Hebrew kids killed so Moses standing up for one and killing an Egyptian instead is probably not such a great idea. Pharaoh wanted Moses killed in return so he did the right thing and ran like the wind.

Moses ran until he ended up in Midian - which was lucky for him since the priest there had 7 daughters. Whooo baby-baby. The daughters had to fill water from the well Moses was hanging out at. Their job was to fill the water troughs for all their dad's animals. There were some shepherds terrorizing the girls and Moses got rid of them and did the manly thing by helping the ladies out with their watering chores. Daddy was so impressed by Moses he rewarded him with not just bread, but one of his daughter's too. Score for Moses! To think he was bound for death just for being born a boy. Thanks to the quick thinking of his older sister, he not only lived, he conquered.

(Exodus 1 & 2)

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