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In the first part of the chapter – a baby is rescued!<\/p>\n

Who is this baby? When you read the chapter you must wait patiently until Verse 10 to find out that the baby is Moses. Until then he’s a Hebrew infant born to anonymous parents from the tribe of Levi. His mother does everything she can to keep him alive despite the fiendish decree “Cast every male infant into the Nile” (1:22). She hides him as long as she can, and when it’s no longer possible she places him in a basket among the reeds. His sister, too, joins the effort to save the infant and she stands at a distance, watching over him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The third woman in the story is Pharaoh’s daughter who happens upon the place and reacts unexpectedly to the sight of the “Hebrew child” – “and she had pity on him.” Bravely and cleverly the baby’s sister arranges for the baby’s own mother to nurse him. “And the boy grew and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son and she called him Moses, saying: For I drew him from the water” (2:10).<\/p>\n

In the second part of the chapter Moses (the baby from the first part) intervenes in three incidents and also rescues<\/strong> (when possible).<\/p>\n

Moses grows up and goes out to see his brethren and immediately demonstrates a highly developed sense of justice:<\/p>\n

On the first day he reacts with zero tolerance to violence when he sees “an Egyptian man beating a Hebrew man, one of his brethren” (2:11). The Egyptian is immediately removed from the stage of history.<\/p>\n

On the second day he intervenes in a quarrel between two Hebrews and rebukes the wicked one: “Why are you beating your brother?” (2:13). The wicked one’s reaction teaches Moses that “The thing is known” – the fact that he killed the Egyptian the night before – and Moses runs for his life to Midian.<\/p>\n

In Midian he comes to the rescue of seven girls whom shepherds have chased away from the troughs “and Moses rose up and rescued them and watered their flocks” (2:17).<\/p>\n

Moses stays in Midian, marries one of the girls he rescued (Zipporah) and even has a son (Gershom).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, back in Egypt… The change has begun: the Israelites cry out – “And their cry reached God” (2:13) “And God heard them… and God remembered His covenant… and God saw the Israelites and He knew” (2:23-24).<\/p>\n

In the next chapter – this memory begins to take form as a plan for rescue.<\/p>\n

Points to Ponder:<\/p>\n

1. Women who rescue<\/strong>. Feminine power, which already appeared in the previous chapter in the form of the courageous midwives, continues to dominate the story of rescue. In this chapter (again?) it crosses national lines, involving the Hebrew mother and sister and Pharaoh’s daughter (and maybe her handmaidens too) who disobey Pharaoh’s royal decree (like the midwives in Chapter 1).<\/p>\n

2. Moses<\/strong>. Moses, who is to grow up to be the rescuer, gets his name from his own personal rescue by Pharaoh’s daughter – “For I drew him from the water” (2:10).<\/p>\n

3. Hebrew identity<\/strong>. As an infant, Moses wasn’t raised in Pharaoh’s palace. He was raised by the Hebrew nursemaid (you know that she’s his mother) and only later is he adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter – “And the boy grew and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son” (2:10). Maybe this is why he knows who his brothers are when he grows up and leaves the palace.<\/p>\n

4. Buildup<\/strong>. Moses’ involvement in the quarrels around him are built up gradually, showing us his characteristic sense of justice. He intervenes not only when the Egyptian harms the Hebrew but when two Hebrews quarrel and the wicked one harms his brother, and even when foreign shepherds harm foreign women.<\/p>\n

5. Leadership<\/strong>. Moses doesn’t know it yet, but you do, that he will be the one who takes the Israelites out of Egypt. 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