Two Levites married and when they had a son the mother hid him for 3 months to avoid the Pharaonic death decree. When she could hide him no longer she put him in a floating basket amongst the reeds of the Nile. (She had almost obeyed Pharoah's decree to throw baby boys into the river!) One of Pharoah's daughters saw the basket and felt sorry for the baby crying. The baby's sister stepped in and offered Pharoah's daughter to get a Hebrew nanny (the baby's mother!) to care for the baby. When the child grew older he was taken to Pharoah's daughter to be her son and she named him Moses. One day after Moses had grown up he went and observed how his Hebrew people endured hard labour and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew so he intervened and killed the Egyptian. When this came to the ears of Pharoah he wanted to kill Moses so Moses fled to Midian. There a priest called Jethro had 7 daughters who came to a well, where Moses was, to water their flock and he helped them with their task. When their father learnt of Moses's kindness he invited him to eat and stay with them and he ended up giving his daughter Zipporah in marriage to Moses, and they had a son whom they named Gershom. Considerable time later the king of Egypt died but the Israelites continued to groan in their slavery and their cry for help went up to God. God heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and was concerned about the Hebrews.
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