The story of Moses is summarized below
"And when she could hide him no longer she took for him a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds at the river's brink. And his sister stood at a distance, to know what would be done to him. Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens walked beside the river; she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to fetch it. When she opened it she saw the child; and lo, the babe was crying. She took pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children. ... And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son; and she named him Moses, for she said, "Because I drew him out of the water." (Exodus 2:3-6,10)
Moses is one of the best-known people of The Holy Bible. The story of Moses covers four books of the Bible and is referred to in many other book sof the Bible. He played a key role in the Exodus, and later he received The Ten Commandments from God (twice - he smashed the first set when he discovered the Israelites running wild at the foot of Mount Sinai i.e. Exodus 32:19 and 34:1). He directed the construction of The Tabernacle and The Ark Of The Covenant. He is also the author of The Pentateuch, the first 5 Books of the Bible - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
Moses was a Levite (Exodus 2:1), son of Amram and Jochebed (Exodus 6:20), brother of Aaron and Miriam (1 Chronicles 6:3). He was born in Egypt (Exodus 2:1-2), in the region of Goshen in The Nile Delta, where, even under brutal slavery, the Israelites had grown to a great multitude that the Egyptians eventually viewed as a national security threat (Exodus 1:12) (see Growth Of A Nation).
Ten Commandments from Moses Written Out
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The Ten Commandments List in order
To escape the Egyptian king's edict to kill all male Hebrew infants (Exodus 1:15-16), Moses' mother Jochebed and sister Miriam (Mary is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Miriam, an interesting coincidence since Moses was the deliverer of God's physical people, just as Jesus Christ is the Deliverer of God's spiritual people - and both spent their infancy in Egypt) put him a waterproof basket, and set it adrift in The Nile River (Exodus 2:3-4). The basket was found by the Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted the infant. She named him Moses, because, "I drew him out of the water" (Exodus 2:5-10). Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out, in Moses' case, saved from the water.
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