Lesson_79_Birth_of_Moses

Pharaoh enacts a horrific decree: every Hebrew baby boy must be thrown into the Nile River to drown. But a

Levite woman named Jochebed refuses to comply. She hides her newborn son for three months until he is too

loud to conceal. In an act of desperate faith, she literally obeys Pharaoh's law-she puts her son into the Nile

River-but she puts him inside a waterproofed papyrus basket. Miriam, the baby's sister, watches from the

reeds. In an incredible twist of divine irony, Pharaoh's own daughter finds the baby, feels pity, and adopts him,

even paying Jochebed to be his wet-nurse! Moses is raised in the absolute luxury of the Egyptian palace,

educated by the very empire he will one day destroy. Today, we explore the physics of buoyancy, the courage

of civil disobedience, and the brilliant, poetic justice of God's providenc